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Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 177990
ESTC number: T33036
Folger call number: ART Vol. a37
Folger holdings ID: 352471
Accession Number: cs1864
Notes
Edition
The fourth edition, revised and augmented, with a glossarial index / by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
This record comprises two issues with the same settings of type, printed on slightly different sizes of paper: large paper copies, of which 25 sets were printed, measuring approximately 26 cm, and regular paper copies, measuring approximately 23 cm. At least some of the large paper copies have additional engraved portraits and genre scenes published by E. and S. Harding (ESTC and Jaggard) Dodsley's collection of old plays edited by Isaac Reed Printed by H. Baldwin (ESTC) Each vol. with a half-title and a vol. title page. Each play with a divisional title Engravings, mostly in large paper copies, variously lettered by engravers: Le Goux, T. Nugent, R. Clamp, L. Schiavonetti, T. Trotter, C. Knight, Ridley, F. Bartolozzi, A. Birrell, J. Jones, Medland, Sparrow, E. Harding, Jr., R. Clamp, I. Parker, W.N. Gardiner, Scheneker, P.W. Tomkins; and by artists: S. Harding, Sir J. Reynolds, T. Thornton, Gio Batta Albreggi, F. Grosse, Sylvester, I. Nixon, I. Jordan, P. Sandby. Morris dancers folded engraving in v. 8 Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe, and the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton in v. 1 Addenda and instructions to the binder in v. 1. Glossarial index in v. 3 Portions of ART Vol. a37 also available as a digital reproduction
Contents
v. 1-2. Prolegomena -- v. 3. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 4. Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 5. Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice -- v. 6. As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 7. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth -- v. 8. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 -- v. 9. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 -- v. 10. King Henry VI, parts 2-3 -- v. 11. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens -- v. 12. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 13. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles -- v. 14. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet -- v. 15. Hamlet ; Othello
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Extending the Book (ART Vol. a37, v.3-6, 9, 12)
Item information about Folger ART Vol. a37
Extra-illustrated with approximately 550 prints, including portraits of Shakespeare, his editors and commentators, authors of works from which Shakespeare borrowed plots and characters, and historical figures mentioned in the Prolegomena and notes to the plays, as well as topographical views of settings of Shakespeare's plays; only a very few prints depict actors in Shakespearean roles. One original drawing of 'Glames Castle, Forfarshire' (v. 7, after p. 350) cataloged separately. Armorial bookplate and autograph of Charles Walmesley in most volumes; manuscript note pasted on inside front cover of v. 1 attributes extra-illustration to a Mr. Thayne. Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Folger from Maggs Bros., November 1928. An index of the engravings in this copy cataloged as Folger MS S.a.159
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of William Shakspeare : in fifteen volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes / by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens
Alternate titles: Plays of William Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797
bookseller: Dilly, Charles, 1739-1807
bookseller: Robson, James, 1733-1806
bookseller: Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809
bookseller: Vernor, Thomas, -1793
bookseller: Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
bookseller: Murray, John, 1737-1793
bookseller: Baldwin, R. (Robert), 1737-1810
bookseller: Gardner, Henry Lasher, -1808
bookseller: Sewell, John, 1733 or 1734-1802
bookseller: Goldsmith, William, -1795
bookseller: Payne, Thomas, 1752-1831
bookseller: Hayes, Samuel, active 1779-1795
bookseller: Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815
bookseller: Lowndes, W. (William)
bookseller: B. and J. White
bookseller: Newbery, E. (Elizabeth), 1746-1821
bookseller: Barker, James, active 1779-1818
bookseller: Edwards, James, 1756-1816
bookseller: Cuthell, John
bookseller: Lackington, James, 1746-1815
bookseller: Deighton, J. (John), active 1786-1812
bookseller: Miller, William, 1769-1844
printer: Baldwin, Henry, 1734-1813
printmaker: Le Goux, L.
printmaker: Nugent, Thomas, active 18th century
printmaker: Clamp, R., active 18th century
printmaker: Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765-1810
printmaker: Trotter, Thomas, 1756-1803
printmaker: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?
printmaker: Ridley, William, 1764-1838
printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
printmaker: Birrell, A., active 1770-1820
printmaker: Medland, Thomas, active 18th-19th century
printmaker: Sparrow, Samuel, active 1783?-1815?
printmaker: Parker, James, 1750-1805
printmaker: Gardiner, W. N. (William Nelson), 1766-1814
printmaker: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840
illustrator: Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809
illustrator: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
illustrator: Albreggi, Gio. Batta
illustrator: Nixon, John, -1818
illustrator: Jordan, John, 1746-1809
illustrator: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809
former owner: Whitaker, John, 1735-1808
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
inscriber: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
associated with: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
former owner: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
associated with: Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807
binder: Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883
former owner: Gutch, John Mathew, 1776-1861
former owner: Edwardes, Henry Hope, Sir, 1829-1900
former owner: Miller, Elizabeth, d. not before 1793
former owner: Travers, Caroline, d. not before 1793
former owner: Burges, Elizabeth Mary, d. not before 1793
former owner: Gape, Thomas Foreman, d. not before 1793
former owner: Booth, John, active 1839
former owner: Lewis, John Delaware, 1828-1884
former owner: Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
former owner: Carte, Richard D'Oyly, 1844-1901
binder: Clarke, J.
former owner: Walmesley, C. (Charles), 1722-1797
bookseller: B. Law and Son
bookseller: G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England)
bookseller: F. and C. Rivington (Firm)
bookseller: G. and T. Wilkie (Firm)
bookseller: Scatcherd and Whitaker
bookseller: Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
bookseller: Ogilvy & Speare (London, England)