Creator
Date
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States
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Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2752 1830a copy 4 v.3 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421643
Accession Number: 10.2.49
Notes
Bibliographic format
sixteenmo
General notes
Stereotyper information precedes publisher on title page; "N. York" follows name Each volume embellished with a frontispiece engraving and an added-engraved title page Added-engraved t.p. variously lettered by engravers and artists; published: Philadelphia, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, & McCarty & Davis, 1823
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it -- v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth -- v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus -- v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles -- v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2752 1830a copy 4 v.3 Sh.Col
Imperfect: v. 3 only. Illegible autograph dated 1857. Gift of Mrs. George T. Cunningham. Bound in leather with filleting, black leather spine label, and marbled endpapers
Also known as
Extended title: The plays of William Shakspeare / accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq. ; with glossarial notes, and a sketch of the life of Shakspeare ; in eight volumes
Alternate titles: Plays of William Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
stereotyper: Howe, Jedediah, 1791-1834
former owner: Saxe, John G., d. not before 1830
former owner: Mapie, Thos. J., d. not before 1830
printer: Howe, J.
publisher: M'Carty & Davis