Shakespeare, William. The works of William Shakespeare

Folger bibliographic ID: 302331
Folger call number: PR2752 1875g Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421434
Accession Number: 6737

General notes

Frontispiece portrait engraved by R.C. Bell from the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare. Additional plates from works by Joseph Wright, Maria Angelica Kauffmann, Robert Smirke, Rev. William Peters, Thomas Kirk, J. Downman, John H. Ramberg, William Hamilton, James Northcote, Joseph Farington, Richard Westall, George Romney, William Miller, and James Barry

Contents

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

Item information about Folger PR2752 1875g Sh.Col

Half bound in leather, with marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. Gift of Henry N. Paul

Uniform title: Works. 1875. Lippincott & Co
Extended title: The works of William Shakespeare / edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke ; in four volumes

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877
associated with: Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898
printmaker: Bell, Robert Charles, 1806-1872
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
illustrator: Droeshout, Martin, 1601-
illustrator: Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797
illustrator: Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807
illustrator: Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
illustrator: Peters, Matthew William, 1741 or 1742-1814
illustrator: Kirk, Thomas, 1765?-1797
illustrator: Downman, John, 1750-1824
illustrator: Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840
illustrator: Hamilton, William, 1751-1801
illustrator: Northcote, James, 1746-1831
illustrator: Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821
illustrator: Westall, Richard, 1765-1836
illustrator: Romney, George, 1734-1802
illustrator: Miller, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810
illustrator: Barry, James, 1741-1806
publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
publisher: Bickers & Son
printer: James Ballantyne and Co.