Shakespeare, William. The plays of William Shakspeare : in miniature

Folger bibliographic ID: 265487
Folger call number: PR2752 1803d copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351181
Accession Number: cs210

Edition

Sharpe's edition

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Each volume with a volume title page; v. 1-3 are dated 1803, v. 4-9 are dated 1804. Each play with a divisional title. Plays are separately paginated Glossary in v. 9 With 2 final leaves of booksellers advertisements in v. 9 Frontispiece engraved by P.W. Tomkins from a work by R. Corbould (Har. 49)

Contents

v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; Timon of Athens ; King John -- v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Hamlet -- v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Romeo and Juliet -- v. 9. Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear ; Othello

Item information about Folger PR2752 1803d copy 2 Sh.Col

Half bound in calf with marbled boards and leather spine labels; bug smashed in back of v. 7

Uniform title: Plays. 1803. C. Whittingham
Extended title: The plays of William Shakspeare : in miniature
Alternate titles: Plays of William Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
printer: Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840
bookseller: Sharpe, John, 1777-1860
bookseller: Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy)
printmaker: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840
illustrator: Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831
former owner: Lightfoot, Louisa, active 1852