Creator
Date
Location
England
Great Britain
Media format
Extent
Language
Size
Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2817 1817 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 356605
Accession Number: 1627
Notes
Edition
Whittingham's edition
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
Each play with an individual title page reading "from the Chiswick Press" dated between 1816 and 1818. Plays with separate pagination and signatures With Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeare, written expressly for this edition in 1814, revised and altered in March 1818 by John Britton, and Johnson's preface in v. 1. Glossarial index in v. 7
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well -- v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II -- v. 4. King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, parts 1-2 -- v. 5. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens -- v. 6. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 7. Pericles ; King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2817 1817 Sh.Col
Imperfect: v. 5 fragment of King Henry VIII only. Bound in marbled boards
Also known as
Alternate titles: Dramatic works of William Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
printer: Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840
former owner: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
former owner: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
former owner: Layng, T. F., d. not before 1818