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Great Britain
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Folger bibliographic ID: 174508
ESTC number: T138855
Folger call number: PR2752 1773b copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 177461
Accession Number: cs21
Notes
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
"This edition, in which were united ... Dr. Johnson with ... George Steevens, superseded all previous editions and became the standard for future editors and publishers"--Lowndes (Jaggard, p. 504) Volume 1 with a general title page. Each volume with a volume title page; volumes 2-10 with divisional half-titles; each play with a divisional play half-title Volume 1 with the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, and Warburton, and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe. Volume 8 with two appendices, the second by Richard Farmer Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 5. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV -- v. 6. Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus -- v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2752 1773b copy 1 Sh.Col
Bound in calf with gold filleting on spines and red and black spine labels. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of William Shakespeare : in ten volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators / to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens ; with an appendix
Related names
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744
associated with: Warburton, William, 1698-1779
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797
bookseller: Bathurst, Charles
bookseller: Beecroft, John, -1779
bookseller: Strahan, William, 1715-1785
publisher: Rivington, John, 1720-1792
publisher: Rivington, Francis, 1745-1822
bookseller: Hinton, John, -1781
bookseller: Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791
bookseller: Hawes, Clarke and Collins
bookseller: Horsfield, R. (Robert)
bookseller: Johnston, W. (William), -1804
bookseller: Owen, W. (William), -1793
bookseller: Caslon, Thomas, -1783
bookseller: Johnson, Edward, -1796
bookseller: Crowder, Stanley, -1798
bookseller: White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794
bookseller: Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797
bookseller: Law, B. (Bedwell), -1798
bookseller: Dilly, E. (Edward), 1732-1779
bookseller: Dilly, Charles, 1739-1807
bookseller: Corbet, Charles, Sir, 1734-1808
bookseller: Griffin, William, active 1758-1776
bookseller: Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
bookseller: Woodfall, William, 1746-1803
bookseller: Keith, George, -1782
bookseller: Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784
bookseller: Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785
bookseller: Robson, James, 1733-1806
bookseller: Becket, Thomas
bookseller: Newbery, Francis, -1780
bookseller: Robinson, George, 1736-1801
bookseller: Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799
bookseller: Williams, James, -1786
bookseller: Hingeston, Mileson, -1806
bookseller: Ridley, John, -1782
printmaker: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
signer: Edwards, Cadw, active 18th century
annotator: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
former owner: Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935