Shakespeare, William. The pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere

Folger bibliographic ID: 265949
Folger call number: PR2752 1867b5 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351783
Accession Number: cs1424

Edition

2nd ed., rev

General notes

Originally issued in 32 monthly parts, with individual printed paper wrappers Uniform with Charles Knight's biography of Shakespeare, published 1867 Includes indexes Illustrations engraved by J. Jackson, E. Landells, C. Gray, W.T. Green, Thos. Williams, John Thompson, J.W. Whimper, Mason Jackson, E. Evans, F.W. Quartley, Felter, Orrin Smith, S. Sly, W.H. Prior, J. Bastin, A.J. Mason, G. Dalziel, and H.L. Clarke from works by W. Harvey, G.F. Sargent, R.W. Buss, C. Jacque, W. Dickes, J.W. Archer, and F.W. Fairholt

Contents

[v. 1] Two gentlemen of Verona ; Love's labour's lost ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Comedy of errors ; Taming of the shrew ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice -- [v. 2] All's well that ends well ; Much ado about nothing ; Twelfth night ; As you like it ; Measure for measure ; Winter's tale ; Tempest -- [v. 3] King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- [v. 4] King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII -- [v. 5] Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Cymbeline ; Othello ; Timon of Athens ; King Lear -- [v. 6] Macbeth ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra. Supplementary notice to the Roman plays. Poems. Supplementary notice to the poems -- [v. 7] Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; Two noble kinsmen. Plays ascribed to Shakspere. Dedication, address, and commendatory verses, prefixed to the editions of 1623 and 1632. A history of opinion on the writings of Shakspere. Shakspere in Germany. Shakspere in France

Item information about Folger PR2752 1867b5 Sh.Col

Imperfect: Fragment, containing Macbeth only. In original printed paper wrapper

Uniform title: Plays. 1867. Routledge & Sons
Extended title: The pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere / edited by Charles Knight
Alternate titles: Pictorial edition of the works of Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
printmaker: Jackson, John, 1801-1848
printmaker: Landells, Ebenezer, 1808-1860
printmaker: Gray, Charles, 1810-approximately 1845
printmaker: Green, W. T., active 1837-1872
printmaker: Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800-
printmaker: Thompson, John, 1785-1866
printmaker: Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903
printmaker: Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903
printmaker: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
printmaker: Quartley, F. W. (Frederick William), 1808-1874
printmaker: Felter, John D.
printmaker: Smith, Orrin, 1799-1843
printmaker: Sly, Stephen
printmaker: Prior, William Henry, 1812-1882
printmaker: Bastin, J.
printmaker: Clarke, H. L., active 19th century
printmaker: Dalziel, George, 1815-1902
printmaker: Mason, Abraham John, 1794-1858
illustrator: Harvey, William, 1796-1866
illustrator: Sargent, G. F.
illustrator: Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875
illustrator: Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894
illustrator: Dickes, William, 1815-1892
illustrator: Archer, James, active 1835-1860
illustrator: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
former owner: Fish, Asa I. (Asa Israel), 1820-1879
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954