Shakespeare, William. The family Shakspeare : in ten 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

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Creator

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Date

1820

Location

London : (London : Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street)
London, England
Great Britain

Media format

Printed text

Extent

10 v.

Language

English

Size

18 cm

Reference IDs

Folger bibliographic ID: 266157
Folger call number: PR2752 1820e Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351991
Accession Number: cs885

Notes

Edition

The second edition

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

Either stereotyped from the same setting of type as the 1818 Family Shakspeare, or remainder sheets of that edition, except Measure for measure, which is re-edited and much altered and contains cancels. All preliminaries newly printed, with a preface dated 1820 (Folger card catalog) Printer's information from colophon; "London" follows address Publisher's printed spine labels read "Bowdler's family Shakspeare."

v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John -- v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello

Item information about Folger PR2752 1820e Sh.Col

Stamp: T. Langton. Autograph (v. 4): Tomas Langton, U.C. College, Toronto. Quarter cloth and original boards, manuscript spine labels on cloth, which covers original paper spine labels, visible in some vols.; leaves untrimmed, some unopened; bookseller's ticket: T. Muncaster, bookseller, 29 Church Street, Liverpool

Also known as

Uniform title: Plays. 1820. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Extended title: The family Shakspeare : in ten 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: Bowdler's family Shakspeare, Family Shakespeare

Related names

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825
former owner: Langton, Thomas, active 19th century