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Boston, Massachusetts
United States
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Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2752 1864e copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 351312
Accession Number: 6091
Notes
General notes
Based on the Chiswick edition of 1826, reproducing even the wood cuts; the text and notes by Singer being revised. (Preface) Same setting of type as Crosby & Nichols' edition published in 1863 Frontispiece based on the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare. Additional plates lettered: Felter
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; 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 and 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. Historical sketch of the English drama before Shakespeare. Poems
Item information about Folger PR2752 1864e copy 2 Sh.Col
Imperfect: volume 2 only. Autograph, partially obscured: E.D. Hinckley. Publisher's cloth binding
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: Warren, Mary Ida, active 1864
former owner: Alden Robert Percy, d. not before 1864
former owner: Hinckley, E. D., d. not before 1864
publisher: Crosby and Nichols
stereotyper: Boston Stereotype Foundry