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Boston, Massachusetts
United States
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Folger call number: PR2752 1867n Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351780
Accession Number: 6097
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Same setting of type as the edition published 1851-56, which "in type, and style of execution" followed the Chiswick edition of 1826, reproducing even the wood cuts; the text and notes by Singer being revised. The long introductions are based on the editor's Lectures on Shakespeare, published in 1848 Volume 11 frontispiece from the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare. Additional illustrations engraved by Felter
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windor ; Twelfth night -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John -- v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus Cressida -- v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello -- v. 11. Life of Shakespeare. An historical sketch of the English drama before Shakespeare. Poems and sonnets
Item information about Folger PR2752 1867n Sh.Col
Autograph: [M?].H. [W?]iers. Publisher's cloth binding. Gift of Henry N. Paul
Also known as
Extended title: The works of Shakespeare : the text carefully restored according to the first editions : with introductions, notes original and selected, and a life of the poet / by the Rev. H.N. Hudson ; in eleven volumes
Related names
associated with: Hudson, Henry Norman, 1814-1886
associated with: Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858
printmaker: Felter, John D.
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954