Shakespeare, William. The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 531
Folger bibliographic ID: 264761
Folger call number: PR2752 1854o Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 350382
Accession Number: 4-13-50

General notes

Vol. 1 frontispiece lettered: Holl, sc. Added, engraved title page lettered: H. Billings, del.; D.L. Glover, sc. Other plates engraved by D.L. Glover, T. Kelley, F. Halpin, Rice, Buttre, O. Pelton from works by J. Hayter, A. Egg, Corbould, Frith, J.W. Wright, K. Meadows, A. Johnston, Sir J. Reynolds Edited by Oliver W. B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare", by Collier Apparently printed from stereotypes of the 1836 edition, with the Poems added in v.8 (Jaggard) Vol. 8 has title: The poetical works of William Shakspeare : with notes illustrative and explanatory : together with a supplementary notice to the Roman plays

Contents

v. 1. Life of Shakspeare. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 3. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 -- v. 4. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 5. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus -- v. 6. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles -- v. 7. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello -- v. 8. Venus and Adonis ; The rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets. Illustration of the sonnets. A lover's complaint ; The passionate pilgrim ; Verses among the additional poems to Chester's Love's martyr (1601). Illustrations of A lover's complaint, The passionate pilgrim, &c. Supplementary notice to the poems. Supplementary notice to the Roman plays

Item information about Folger PR2752 1854o Sh.Col

Bookplate: Julia Anna Hopkins. Autograph: Mrs. Mary J.H. Hopkins. Some manuscript markings. Bookseller's ticket: From Seymour & Alward's Book Store, 97 Genesee St., Auburn, N.Y. Leather binding, with marbled endpapers and edges. Envelope laid in v.7, removed to curatorial file, with manuscript: For Prof. Hopkins and friends. Gift of Julia A. Hopkins

Uniform title: Works. 1854. Phillips, Sampson & Co
Extended title: The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected
Alternate titles: Dramatic works of William Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848
associated with: Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858
associated with: Symmons, Charles, 1749-1826
associated with: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
former owner: Hopkins, Mary J. H., d. not before 1854
former owner: Hopkins, Julia Anna, d. not before 1854
printmaker: Holl, Benjamin, 1808-1884
illustrator: Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874
printmaker: Glover, De Lay, 1823-1863
printmaker: Kelly, Thomas, approximately 1795-approximately 1841
printmaker: Halpin, Frederick W., 1805-1880
printmaker: Rice, J. R. (James R.), 1824-
printmaker: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
printmaker: Pelton, Oliver, 1798-1882
illustrator: Hayter, John, 1800-1895
illustrator: Egg, A.
illustrator: Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909
illustrator: Wright, John William, 1802-1848
illustrator: Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874
illustrator: Johnston, Alexander, 1815-1891
illustrator: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
publisher: Phillips, Sampson & Company