Creator
Date
Location
Great Britain
Media format
Extent
Language
Size
Reference IDs
Alston, R.C. Bibliography of the English language: III.81
Folger bibliographic ID: 265349
ESTC number: T138857
Folger call number: PR2752 1771c copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351000
Accession Number: cs893
Notes
Edition
The second edition
Bibliographic format
quarto
General notes
Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer, revised by Thomas Hawkins Contains the plays only With a general title page dated 1771. Volume title pages read: The works of Mr. William Shakespear, and are dated 1770. Each play with a divisional title page Contains the Chandos portrait, Stratford bust (as altered for Pope's edition) and the Westminster monument, also an engraving to each play, by H. Gravelot after F. Hayman With the prefaces of Hanmer and Pope, Some account of the life, &c. by Rowe, and Ben Johnson's poem in v. 1. Various readings of Theobald and Capel in all volumes. Glossary with errata in v. 6
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale -- v. 3. King Lear ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 4. King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII -- v. 5. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth -- v. 6. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2752 1771c copy 2 Sh.Col
Autograph: H.[G.?] Ha[usi?]m, 32 W. 9th St. Half bound in black leather with marbled boards and endpapers; bottoms of spines in gilt: W.E. Burton
Also known as
Extended title: The works of Shakespear : in six volumes : adorned with sculptures
Alternate titles: Works of Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Hanmer, Thomas, Sir, 1677-1746
associated with: Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
printmaker: Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773
artist: Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776
associated with: Capell, Edward, 1713-1781
associated with: Hawkins, Thomas, 1729 or 1730-1772
former owner: Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
former owner: Combe, Cecilia, 1794-1868
former owner: Newcome, Ann, active 1795
former owner: Mair, S. E. S., d. not before 1771
former owner: Burton, William E. (William Evans), 1802-1860
printer: Oxford University Press
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library