Shakespeare, William. The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with notes critical, historical, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent commentators ; to which is prefixed a life of the author

Folger bibliographic ID: 302686
Folger call number: PR2752 1825b copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421982
Accession Number: cs1029

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Printer information from colophon Each volume with a volume title page and half-title Engraved frontispieces in v.1-3 alternately lettered: engraved by E. Scriven; and J. Swaine sc

Contents

v. 1. Life of Shakspeare. Shakspeare's will. Poems on Shakspeare. Rowe's preface. Pope's preface. Dr. Johnson's preface. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 2. Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale -- v. 4. Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 -- v. 5. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 6. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus -- v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles -- v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello

Item information about Folger PR2752 1825b copy 1 Sh.Col

Bookplate of John Walter Moore, 1832. Inscription in Latin: "Johnni G. Moore, juveni exregis ... 1832." Armorial calf prize binding (motto: Coll. exon. oxon.) with blind tooling, filleting, and marbled endpapers and edges

Uniform title: Plays. 1825. Saunders and Otley
Extended title: The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with notes critical, historical, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent commentators ; to which is prefixed a life of the author / by the Rev. William Harness, A. M. of Christ's College, Cambridge : in eight volumes
Alternate titles: Dramatic works of William Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Harness, William, 1790-1869
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
printer: Dove, John Fowler
engraver: Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841
engraver: Swaine, John, 1775 or 1776-1860
former owner: Grinfield, Thomas, 1788-1870
former owner: Moore, John Walter, active 1832
former owner: Vines, Henry, active 19th century
bookseller: Saunders and Otley
bookseller: G. Cowie, and Co.