Creator
Date
Location
Great Britain ǂb England ǂd London
Media format
Extent
Language
Size
Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2753 1904b copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349827
Accession Number: cs685, 702, 740, 1512, 1559, 1877, F2-14-50
Notes
General notes
No general or volume title pages; title from head of individual play title pages. Issued in at least two different ways: 1) in 20 v. with two works per volume, and 2) in 40 v., each work bound separately "With an introduction by George Brandes" - individual play title page "Cambridge Shakespeare" (Macmillan and Co.) used as text--verso of title page
Contents
v. 1. Two gentlemen of Verona ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 2. Comedy of errors ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 3. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice -- v. 4. Merry wives of Windsor ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 5. As you like it ; Twelfth night -- v. 6. All's well that ends well ; Measure for measure -- v. 7. Winter's tale ; Tempest -- v. 8. King Henry VI. Part 1 ; King Henry VI. Part 2 -- v. 9. King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III -- v. 10. King Richard II ; King John -- v. 11. King Henry IV. Part 1 ; King Henry IV. Part 2 -- v. 12. Henry V ; King Henry VIII -- v. 13. Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 14. Coriolanus ; Romeo and Juliet -- v. 15. Julius Caesar ; Hamlet -- v. 16. Othello ; Macbeth -- v. 17. King Lear ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 18. Timon of Athens ; Pericles -- v. 19. Cymbeline ; Venus and Adonis -- v. 20. Lucrece ; Sonnets
Item information about Folger PR2753 1904b copy 2 Sh.Col
Individually bound plays. Imperfect: includes v.3, 5-7, 9-10, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 33-34, 37-38. Publisher's decorated cloth binding
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of Shakespeare : with an introduction / by George Brandes
Alternate titles: Works of Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Brandes, Georg, 1842-1927
publisher: Heinemann (Firm)