Shakespeare, William. The plays and poems of William Shakespeare : in eleven volumes

Keynes, G. William Pickering publisher (rev. ed.): p. 89
Folger bibliographic ID: 270543
Folger call number: PR2752 1825k copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 356558
Accession Number: 5949

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Two states of this edition have been identified which can be distinguished by corrigenda and cancel leaves. The earlier state has both the original, misprinted leaves of text bound within the plays, as well as one leaf detailing corrigenda for every volume, and all of the replacement cancel leaves following the glossary in v. 11. The cancel leaves have the volume number printed in the direction lines, the original leaves do not. The other state has the cancel leaves correctly bound within each play, as well as a final leaf of corrigenda in each volume Printer's information from colophon With vol. half-titles and vol. title pages; plays with divisional titles Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: M. Droeshout, W.H. Worthington sc. London, published by William Pickering, Chancery Lane; Nattali & Combe, Tavistock St.; & Talboys & Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 Wreath printer's device on vol. title page "A series of thirty-eight engravings, to embellish this edition of Shakespeare, principally from designs by Stothard, price 38s. May be had of the publishers" (Half-sheet Pickering advertisement inserted into Folger Library copy 2 v. 11)

Contents

v. 1. Preface to Shakespeare / by Dr. Samuel Johnson. 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 ; King Richard III -- v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar -- v. 8. Coriolanus ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline -- v. 9. Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello -- v. 11. Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate pilgrim ; Lover's complaint. Glossary

Item information about Folger PR2752 1825k copy 2 Sh.Col

Imperfect: lacking v. 4. This is the earlier state. Engraved portrait bound in v. 2. Some vols. with bookseller's advertisements pasted into front covers; v. 6 with two initial leaves of a Prospectus of a new edition of Dodsley's old plays, London, published by Septimus Prowett, 23, Old Bond Street. Half-sheet advertisement for play engravings in v. 11. Armorial bookplate (motto: Porro unum est necessarium) of William Bolton Cowley. Gift of Henry N. Paul. In original red cloth binding with publisher's paper spine labels; leaves uncut; ticket: Sold by Richd. M. Tims, bookseller, publisher, and stationer, no. 85, Grafton St., Dublin

Uniform title: Works. 1825. William Pickering
Extended title: The plays and poems of William Shakespeare : in eleven volumes

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
illustrator: Droeshout, Martin, 1601-
bookseller: Nattali, Michael Angelo
former owner: Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
printmaker: Worthington, William Henry, approximately 1795-approximately 1839
bookseller: Pickering, William, 1796-1854
bookseller: Combe, Thomas, 1797-1872
former owner: Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
former owner: Cowley, William Bolton, d. not before 1825
bookseller: Tims, Richard Moore
binder: J. & J. Leighton