Creator
Date
Location
London, England
Great Britain
Media format
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Size
Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2752 1809c3 copy 4 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 352332
Accession Number: cs229
Notes
Edition
Stereotype edition
Bibliographic format
twelvemo
General notes
Edition statement from volume half-titles Stereotyper and printer information from v. 4 colophon Vernor, Hood and Sharpe produced three similar issues printed from the same stereotypes of the 1809 Plays of William Shakespeare: this issue in duodecimo format, and two variant issues in octavo format Portrait frontispiece lettered: engraved by Holl. Some issues with each play illustrated by an unlettered wood engraving Each volume with vol. title page; each play with a divisional title; "copies were issued with variations in signatures, presence or absence of plates and half-titles, and other details" (Folger card catalog) Some account of the life, &c. by Rowe; Johnson's Preface; and Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare in v. 1
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona -- v. 2. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 3. Measure for measure ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice -- v. 4. As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 5. Winter's tale ; Macbeth ; King John -- v. 6. King Richard II ; King Henry IV -- v. 7. King Henry V ; King Henry VI, parts 1-2 -- v. 8. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII -- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar -- v. 10. Antony and Cleopatra ; King Lear ; Hamlet -- v. 11. Cymbeline ; Timon of Athens ; Othello -- v. 12. Romeo and Juliet ; Comedy of errors ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles
Item information about Folger PR2752 1809c3 copy 4 Sh.Col
12 volumes bound in 6. Plays with wood engravings. Manuscript contents written at the end of each book. Some manuscript ink and pencil notes, including a puzzle "VLSS M-F, RFSS M-L" on the back endpaper of v. 11-12. Bookseller's description pasted onto front endpaper of v. 1-2. Ink autographs covered or effaced on all vol.-t.p. with "Charles" and "1822" still visible on some; "F.B." in v. 5-6. Hald diced-leather binding with marbled boards and sprinkled edges
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of William Shakespeare / from the correct edition of Isaac Reed, Esq
Related names
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797
associated with: Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807
printmaker: Holl, William, 1771-1838
printer: Wilson, Andrew, active 1793-1842
signer: Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
former owner: Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
bookseller: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe
bookseller: Taylor and Hessey
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library
former owner: Stone, Webb, d. not before 1809
former owner: Bennett, William, d. not before 1809
former owner: Bennett, Alicia, active 1825
former owner: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954