Shakespeare, William. The works of William Shakespeare

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Creator

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Date

1857

Location

London : (London
London, England
Great Britain

Media format

Printed text

Extent

6 v.

Language

English

Size

23 cm

Genre

Promotional materials

Reference IDs

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 533
Folger bibliographic ID: 265198
Folger call number: PR2752 1857f copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 350818
Accession Number: cs682

Notes

General notes

Frontispiece portrait (v.1) lettered: Engraved by Francis Holl The first edition under the editorship of Dyce (Jaggard)

v. 1. Some account of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well -- v. 3. Twelfth night ; Winter's tale ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 4. King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus -- v. 5. Titus Andronicus ; Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear -- v. 6. Othello ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; Poems

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Extending the Book (ART Vol. a34, v.2, 4, 10, 15)

Item information about Folger PR2752 1857f copy 2 Sh.Col

Inscription: Dear sir, I'm forwarding to you this book, I can only hope that it will afford more satisfaction to you than it does to, Yours truly, Alexr. Dyce. Autograph: Charles Robson Esqr. With publisher's advertisements. Publisher's cloth binding, with blind decoration. Shipping label from Maggs Bros., 109 Strand, London, to H.C. Folger laid in v.4, removed to curatorial file

Also known as

Uniform title: Works. 1857. E. Moxon
Extended title: The works of William Shakespeare / the text revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce ; in six volumes

Related names

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869
printmaker: Holl, Francis, 1815-1884
annotator: Harrison, W. A. (William Anthony), 1828?-1892
former owner: Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869
former owner: Robson, Charles, d. not before 1857
former owner: Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914
former owner: Best, I. V., active 1892
former owner: Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
binder: Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883