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Great Britain
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Folger call number: PR2752 1788b copy 6 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349860
Accession Number: cs215
Notes
Bibliographic format
twelvemo
General notes
10 volumes of plays of varying printings, sometimes accompanied by 2 volumes of Prolegomena Volumes 1-10 with vol. title pages dated 1786. Plays with imprints ranging in date between 1785 and 1792. Each vol. half-title and each play title page bearing: "Bell's edition." Individual plays have separate pagination and signatures Engraved illustrations, dated between 1784-1786, variously lettered by engravers: Grignion, Bartolozzi, C. Sherwin, Hall, Thornthwaite, Cook, Reading, Newnham; and by artists: Rhamberg, Burney, M. Brown, Sanders, Dance Not in Burnim & Highfill. John Bell Not in ESTC; see ESTC T135347 Not in Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography Prolegomena with the prefaces of Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson; Malone's Attempt to ascertain the chronological order in which the plays of Shakspere were written; and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe
Incomplete Contents
v. 1. Winter's tale ; Twelfth-night ; Comedy of errors ; Measure for measure -- v. 2. As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Two gentlemen of Verona -- v. 3. Tempest ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; Midsummer-night's dream ; All's well that ends well -- v. 5. King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Hamlet -- v. 8. Macbeth ; Othello ; Timon of Athens ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 9. King Lear ; Cymbeline ; Coriolanus -- v. 10. Julius Caesar ; Romeo and Juliet ; Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida -- [v. 11-12.] Prolegomena
Item information about Folger PR2752 1788b copy 6 Sh.Col
Plays dated between 1788-1792. In pencil: Ashley Court. Bound in calf with gold-tooling and leather spine labels. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger
Also known as
Extended title: The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere : with the notes of all the various commentators, printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens
Alternate titles: Dramatic writings of William Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Hanmer, Thomas, Sir, 1677-1746
associated with: Warburton, William, 1698-1779
associated with: Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
bookseller: Bell, John, 1745-1831
printer: Bell, John, 1745-1831
printmaker: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
printmaker: Thornthwaite, J., 1740?-
printmaker: Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818
printmaker: Sherwin, Charles, 1764-1794
printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
printmaker: Reading, Burnet, 1749 or 1750-1838
illustrator: Sanders
illustrator: Dance, Nathaniel, Sir, 1735-1811
illustrator: Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840
illustrator: Brown, Mather, 1761-1831
illustrator: Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848
printmaker: Hall, John, 1739-1797