Creator
Date
Location
London, England
Great Britain
Media format
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Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 302448
Folger call number: PR2752 1827a copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421610
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present
Notes
Edition
The fifth edition
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
Printer information from colophon A new edition, type freshly set, following the 1823 edition (Folger card catalog) All volumes with a half-title and vol. title-page
Contents
v. 1. Preface to the fourth edition. Preface to the first edition. 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 -- v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John -- v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus -- v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2752 1827a copy 1 Sh.Col
Bookplate: Shakespeare Library, Warwick Castle. Bound in green leather with filleting and marbled endpapers, edges gilt; stamp: Bound by Riviere
Also known as
Extended title: The family Shakspeare : in eight volumes : in which nothing is added to the original text : but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family / by Thomas Bowdler, Esq
Alternate titles: Family Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
bookseller: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
printer: Spottiswoode & Co.
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library