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Great Britain
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Folger bibliographic ID: 174507
ESTC number: T138853
Folger call number: PR2752 1785 copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 177460
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present
Notes
Edition
The third edition / revised and augmented by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
Edited by Isaac Reed Volume 1 with a general title page; volumes 2-10 with volume half-titles; each volume with a volume half-title; each play with a divisional title page Volume 1 with frontispiece portrait lettered: engraved by John Hall from an original picture in the possession of his grace the Duke of Chandos ... March 25th, 1785 by J. Rivington & Partners; head of Shakspeare after Droeshout; head of Shakspeare after Marshall; woodcut of the Globe Theatre; and a facsimile of Shakespeare's handwriting. King Henry IV, part 2 with a folded engraving lettered: Morris dancers, J. Keyse Sherwin sculpsit. Some plays with woodcuts illustrating editorial notes. Twelfth-night with music Volume 1 preliminaries include the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton; Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe; Shakepeare's will, followed by a tipped-in leaf with a reproduction of Shakespeare's autograph; Granger's catalogue of portraits of Shakespeare; and Malone's Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written
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 1785 copy 1 Sh.Col
Bookplate: Shakespeare Library, Warwick Castle. Tree calf binding with red and black leather spine labels
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes / by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens
Related names
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Hanmer, Thomas, Sir, 1677-1746
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744
associated with: Warburton, William, 1698-1779
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
associated with: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
associated with: Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807
bookseller: Bathurst, Charles
bookseller: J., F., and C. Rivington (Firm)
bookseller: T. Payne and Son
bookseller: Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791
bookseller: Owen, W. (William), -1793
bookseller: White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794
bookseller: Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797
bookseller: Law, B. (Bedwell), -1798
bookseller: Bowles, Thomas, -1788
bookseller: Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809
bookseller: Dilly, Charles, 1739-1807
bookseller: Robson, James, 1733-1806
bookseller: G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England)
bookseller: Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
bookseller: Gardner, Henry Lasher, -1808
bookseller: Nichols, John, 1745-1826
bookseller: Bew, John, -1793
bookseller: Stuart, William, active 18th century
bookseller: Baldwin, R. (Robert), 1737-1810
bookseller: Murray, John, 1737-1793
bookseller: Strahan, Andrew, -1831
bookseller: Vernor, Thomas, -1793
bookseller: Barker, James, active 1779-1818
bookseller: Lowndes, W. (William)
bookseller: Hayes, Samuel, active 1779-1795
bookseller: G. and T. Wilkie (Firm)
bookseller: Scatcherd and Whitaker
bookseller: Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
bookseller: Fox, William, active 18th century
bookseller: Newbery, E. (Elizabeth), 1746-1821
former owner: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library