Shakespeare, William. The plays and poems of William Shakespeare : with the purest text, and the briefest notes

Folger bibliographic ID: 302356
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 545
Folger call number: PR2752 1878a copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421473
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present

General notes

Edition limited to fifty-eight copies (See Jaggard) Plays published separately between 1875-1878 with bright purple printed wrappers Each title paged separately "in order that they may be arranged according to the wish of each recipient." (See note tipped in University of Michigan copy) Another title page in each volume, dated 1875-1877, with title: Plays of William Shakespeare

Contents

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

Item information about Folger PR2752 1878a copy 2 Sh.Col

Extra-illustrated with 100 extra plates. Half bound in leather, with marbled boards and endpapers; gilt top edge. Scrap paper with brief description of set laid in v.8

Uniform title: Works. 1878
Extended title: The plays and poems of William Shakespeare : with the purest text, and the briefest notes / edited by J. Payne Collier
Alternate titles: Plays of William Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
former owner: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
former owner: Halliday, Alexander B., d. not before 1877