Creator
Date
Location
London, England
Great Britain
Media format
Extent
Language
Size
Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2752 1823j copy 3 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421553
Accession Number: cs1950
Notes
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 PR2752 1823j copy 3 Sh.Col
Presentation inscription: Mark Waters, from his friend Mrs. R. Gwyn, 1825. Note on purchase laid in v. 7; torn mailing label to H.C. Folger from Gabriel Wells laid in v. 8, both removed to case file. Bound in grained brown leather (sheep?), rebacked, with gold tooling and red leather spine labels; marbled endleaves and edges
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., F.R.S. & S.A
Alternate titles: Family Shakespeare
Related names
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