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Location
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
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Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2752 1813b2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351727
Accession Number: cs885
Notes
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
Printer information from colophon; "Boston" follows address Added engraved title pages with imprint: Published by Charles Williams, Boston & Eastburn, Kirk & Co., New York. Another issue in 6 volumes exists with the added engraved title pages bearing the imprint: Published by Charles Williams, Boston & Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, 1813. Both issues in 6 volumes were printed on the same types as The plays of William Shakspeare complete in one volume, published by Charles Williams, 1813 [i.e. 1814]
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; All's well that ends well -- v. 2. Comedy of errors ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale -- v. 3. Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 4. King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus -- v. 5. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 6. Cymbeline ; Romeo and Juliet ; King Lear ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2752 1813b2 Sh.Col
Some pencil markings. Autographs: M.A. Duncan; Eliza. [W.?], 1833; [Z.? Ag?], 1842. Mottled leather with marbled endpapers
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of William Shakspeare : in six volumes : printed from the text of Isaac Reed, Esq
Alternate titles: Plays of William Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807
engraver: Boyd, John
publisher: Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
printer: Buckingham, Joseph T. (Joseph Tinker), 1779-1861
publisher: Williams, Charles, 1789-1854
former owner: Duncan, M. A., d. not before 1813