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Great Britain ǂb England ǂd London
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Folger call number: PR2752 1851b Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349830
Accession Number: cs324
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"The text of Malone, as published in 1821, in twenty-one volumes, is scrupulously followed; and a brief historical sketch and argument are pefixed to each play."--Vol. 1, p. v Same setting of type as H.G. Bohn's editions first published 1842 Frontispiece portrait lettered: Engraved by Freeman. Other plates engraved by Starling from works by Romney, Banks, Hamilton, Fuseli, Smirke, Wright, Kauffman, Peters, Durno, Kirk, Wheatley, Rigaud, Reynolds, Hodges, Ramberg, Downman, West, Ibbetson, Opie, Northcote, Westall, Porter, Brown, Farrington, Boydell, Miller, Stothard, Woodforde, H. Tresham, Hoppner, Barry, Graham, Romanelli, and Domenichino Not in Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography
Contents
v. 1. Life of Shakspeare. Dr. Johnson's preface. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona -- v. 2. Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labor's lost -- v. 4. Twelfth night ; Much ado about nothing ; As you like it -- v. 5. All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale -- v. 6. Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II -- v. 7. King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 8. King Henry VI -- v. 9. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII -- v. 10. Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 11. Pericles ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar -- v. 12. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline -- v. 13. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet -- v. 14. Hamlet ; Othello -- v. 15. Poems. Index to the striking passages and beauties of Shakspeare
Item information about Folger PR2752 1851b Sh.Col
Imperfect: lacking v.13. Autograph: Nathl. Hawthorne, from Tichnor & Co., March 1852. In v.4, autograph of Julian Hawthorne; with pencil sketch portraits, one with manuscript "Johnny Bell." In v.7, manuscript Shakespeare quote. Sketch in v.11 of a helmeted man. Publisher's cloth binding; printed waste
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Extended title: The plays and poems of Shakespeare : according to the improved text of Edmund Malone : including the latest revisions, with a life, glossarial notes, and one hundred and seventy illustrations, from designs by English artists / edited by A.J. Valpy ; in fifteen volumes
Related names
associated with: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Valpy, Abraham John, 1787-1854
printmaker: Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857
illustrator: Boydell, Josiah, 1752-1817
illustrator: Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821
illustrator: Brown, Mather, 1761-1831
illustrator: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
illustrator: Westall, Richard, 1765-1836
illustrator: Northcote, James, 1746-1831
illustrator: Opie, John, 1761-1807
illustrator: Ibbetson, Julius, 1759-1817
illustrator: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
illustrator: Downman, John, 1750-1824
illustrator: Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840
illustrator: Hodges, William, 1744-1797
illustrator: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
illustrator: Rigaud, J. F. (John Francis), 1742-1810
illustrator: Wheatley, Francis, 1747-1801
illustrator: Kirk, Thomas, 1765?-1797
illustrator: Durno, James, approximately 1745-1795
illustrator: Peters, Matthew William, 1741 or 1742-1814
illustrator: Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807
illustrator: Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797
illustrator: Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
illustrator: Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825
illustrator: Hamilton, William, 1751-1801
illustrator: Banks, Thomas, 1735-1805
illustrator: Romney, George, 1734-1802
illustrator: Miller, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810
illustrator: Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834
illustrator: Woodforde, Samuel, 1763-1817
illustrator: Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814
illustrator: Hoppner, John, 1758-1810
illustrator: Barry, James, 1741-1806
illustrator: Graham, J. (John), 1754-1817
illustrator: Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco, 1610-1662
illustrator: Domenichino, 1581-1641
printmaker: Starling, Thomas
publisher: Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884
signer: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
signer: Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934