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London, England
Great Britain
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Folger call number: PR2752 1860-1864 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351017
Accession Number: cs705
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General notes
Plates engraved by J.N. Thompson from works by H. Thomson, T. Stothard, R. Smirke, H. Howard, S. Woodforde, H. Singleton, R. Cooke, and R. Westall
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer night's dream -- v. 2. Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors -- v. 3. Titus Andronicus ; King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello -- v. 4. Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; KIng Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Timon of Athens -- v. 6. Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline
Item information about Folger PR2752 1860-1864 Sh.Col
Vol. 2 published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, dated 1859. Vols. 3 & 6 published by Longman, Green, Roberts, Longmans & Green, dated 1863-1864. Partially unopened. Publisher's cloth binding
Also known as
Extended title: The family Shakspeare : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family / by Thomas Bowdler ; in six volumes
Alternate titles: Family Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825
printmaker: Thompson, John, 1785-1866
illustrator: Thomson, Henry, 1773-1843
illustrator: Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834
illustrator: Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
illustrator: Howard, Henry, 1769-1847
illustrator: Woodforde, Samuel, 1763-1817
illustrator: Singleton, Henry, 1766-1839
illustrator: Cook, Richard, 1784-1857
illustrator: Westall, Richard, 1765-1836