Shakespeare, William. The works of William Shakespeare

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 533
Folger bibliographic ID: 265198
Folger call number: ART Vol. a34
Folger holdings ID: 352470
Accession Number: cs521

General notes

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

Contents

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 ART Vol. a34

Extra-illustrated and extended to 21 volumes with 1247 prints and 125 drawings, including portraits of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and his editors as well as illustrations from other editions of Shakespeare. Original drawings by Edward Edwards, John Thurston, Silvester Harding, Richard Cook, and others cataloged separately. With specially printed title page added to each volume. Red goatskin binding with gilt tooling signed F. Bedford. Blue leather bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe

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

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