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London, England
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Folger bibliographic ID: 265309
Folger call number: PR2752 1858-1860 copy 4 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 350949
Accession Number: cs656
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Frontispiece portrait lettered: E.W. Robinson, del.; H. Robinson, sc Imprint for v.2-3 reads: London ; New York : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge The first issue edited by Howard Staunton and the first to bear Sir John Gilbert's adornments. Issued serially in 50 numbers (Jaggard) Includes bibliographical references Portions of copy 1 also available as a digital reproduction
Contents
v. 1. Some account of the life of Shakespeare. Two gentlemen of Verona ; Love's labour's lost ; Comedy of errors ; Romeo and Juliet ; Taming of the shrew ; King John ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 2. All's well that ends well ; Henry V ; As you like it ; Pericles ; Twelfth night ; King Henry VI ; Timon of Athens ; King Richard III ; Measure for measure ; King Henry VIII ; Cymbeline -- v. 3. Tempest ; King Lear ; Coriolanus ; Winter's tale ; Troilus and Cressida ; Hamlet ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Titus Andronicus ; Othello ; Poems
Item information about Folger PR2752 1858-1860 copy 4 Sh.Col
Armorial bookplate (with motto: Ad extremum tenax): William Charles Macready. In manuscript: This edition of Shakespeare's plays formerly belonged to W.C. Macready (1793-1873) the celebrated English tragedian, and was purchased by me at the sale of his library by Mess. Christie Mana[n?] of E. King St., St. James', shortly after his death, 27 April 1873. It was stated to have been a presentation copy from the edition author, Mr. Staunton, to Macready, Geo. Tawse, 8 July 1873. Half bound in leather, with cloth-covered boards. In v.1, a portrait of Macready pasted in, and a playbill tipped in and folded
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of Shakespeare / edited by Howard Staunton ; the illustrations by John Gilbert ; engraved by the Brothers Dalziel
Related names
associated with: Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874
printer: Clay, Richard, 1789-1877
illustrator: Robinson, Edward W., 1824-1883
illustrator: Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
printmaker: Robinson, John Henry, 1796-1871
former owner: Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873
former owner: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934
former owner: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
former owner: Sala, Harriette, active 1861
former owner: Wallace, W. H., d. not before 1860
former owner: Tawse, George
former owner: Craigie, Edmund, active 1895
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
printmaker: Dalziel Brothers
publisher: G. Routledge & Co.
publisher: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge