Shakespeare, William. 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

Folger bibliographic ID: 302409
Folger holdings ID: 500362

Edition

The third edition

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Printer's name from colophon New setting of type (Folger card catalog) Each volume has a half-title and volume title page

Contents

v. 1: 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, part 1-2 ; King Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI, part 1-3 ; 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

Bookplate of Nathan Appleton inside each volume. Seven newspaper reviews of Fanny Kemble's performances of Shakespeare in Boston in 1857 pasted in at the appropriate plays

Uniform title: Plays. 1823. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
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., F.R.S. & S.A
Alternate titles: Family Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825
former owner: Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898
former owner: Gwyn, R., Mrs., active 1825
former owner: Waters, Mark, active 1825
publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
printer: A. & R. Spottiswoode