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Great Britain
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Folger bibliographic ID: 174467
ESTC number: T138600
Folger call number: PR2752 1767b Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 177418
Accession Number: 5930
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Bibliographic format
twelvemo
General notes
Contains the plays only "The text of this edition ... has been carefully compared with Mr. Pope's, Mr. Johnson's, Mr. Theobald's ... though Mr. Johnson's was principally followed" -- advertisement preceding Tempest, v. 1 Vol. 1 with a general title page; all volumes with a dated volume title page; each play with a half-title Vol. 1 with Pope's preface, and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe Also available as a digital reproduction
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Measure for measure -- v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Love's labour's lost ; Winter's tale -- v. 3. Twelfth-night ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Taming of the shrew ; Comedy of errors -- v. 4. Much ado about nothing ; All's well that ends well ; King John ; King Richard II -- v. 5. King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 7. King Henry VIII ; King Lear ; Timon of Athens -- v. 8. Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar -- v. 9. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Item information about Folger PR2752 1767b Sh.Col
Bookplate: E. Wilson. Autographs: Jane Wilson, May 28, 36; [G.?] Wilson (v.8). Gift of Henry N. Paul. Bound in vellum with gilt-tooling and red and black leather spine labels
Also known as
Extended title: The works of Shakespeare : in ten volumes : with corrections and illustrations from various commentators
Related names
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
former owner: Wilson, E., d. not before 1767
signer: Wilson, Jane, active 1836
bookseller: Martin & Wotherspoon (Edinburgh, Scotland)