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Folger call number: PR2755.K7 Z7h Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 486624
Accession Number: 204010
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Imperial ed
General notes
Issued in 50 parts or 8 divisions to subscribers only Added title-pages, engraved, with vignettes Issued with supplement in 6 parts or 1 division: A biography of William Shakspere / by Charles Knight (originally published as v. 8 of Knight's Pictorial edition of Shakespeare, 1838-1843 under the title William Shakspere: a biography) Includes glossarial index and index to dramatis personae
Contents
v. 1. Notice of the original editions of the plays ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Love's labour's lost ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Comedy of errors ; Taming of the shrew ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; All's well that ends well ; Much ado about nothing ; Twelfth night ; As you like it ; Measure for measure ; Winter's tale ; Tempest ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI. Part 1-2 ; The first part of the contention of the two famous houses of York and Lancaster ; King Henry VI. Part 3 ; The second part of the contention of the two famous houses of York and Lancaster ; King Richard III -- v. 2. King Henry VIII ; Essay on the three parts of King Henry VI and King Richard III ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Cymbeline ; Othello ; Timon of Athens ; King Lear ; Macbeth ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; Two noble kinsmen ; Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Lover's complaint ; Passionate pilgrim ; Plays ascribed to Shakespere ; A brief notice of opinion on the writings of Shakespere ; Indexes
Item information about Folger PR2755.K7 Z7h Sh.Col
Issue in parts, in original printed wrappers with publisher's advertisements. No imprint on engraved t.p. to v. 1. Partially unopened
Also known as
Extended title: The works of Shakspere / edited by Charles Knight ; with illustrations on steel from pictures by C.W. Cope, E.M. Ward, C.R. Leslie ... [et al]
Related names
associated with: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
former owner: Smedley, G. B., d. not before 1875
former owner: McCord, Frank Carey, 1890-1933
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
former owner: Glidden, J. I. G., d. not before 1875
former owner: Prince George's County Memorial Library
publisher: Virtue & Yorston