Shakespeare, William. The works of William Shakspeare : in nine volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and others

Shaw & Shoemaker: 21331
Folger bibliographic ID: 265726
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 511
Folger call number: PR2752 1810-1812 copy 5 v.4 fragment Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 352343
Accession Number: cs484

Edition

Third Boston, from the fifth London edition

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

"Munroe, Francis & Parker's third edition" (colophon v. 1) With vol. half-titles and vol. title pages; plays and poems with divisional titles Plays paginated separately Portrait and unlettered wood engravings (one plate to each play) by Dr. A. Anderson. Cf. Jaggard. Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: D. Edwin sc Vols. 1-4 dated 1810; vols. 5-6 dated 1811; vols. 7-9 dated 1812 Some account of Shakspeare's life and writings by Rowe, Johnson's preface, and Contents to the nine volumes in v. 1. Addenda to the plays preceding the poems in v. 9

Contents

v. 1. Tempest; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors -- v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline -- v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello -- v. 9. Pericles ; Venus and Adonis ; Tarquin and Lucrece ; Poems on several occasions

Item information about Folger PR2752 1810-1812 copy 5 v.4 fragment Sh.Col

Imperfect: King John from v.4 only. Disbound with paper cover and manuscript ink title; leaves untrimmed

Uniform title: Works. 1810. Munroe, Francis, & Parker
Extended title: The works of William Shakspeare : in nine volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and others / revised by Isaac Reed
Alternate titles: Works of William Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
associated with: Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807
associated with: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
printmaker: Edwin, David, 1776-1841
former owner: Crouch, A. A., Mrs.
former owner: Hinds, Ephraim, 1780-1858
former owner: Greenwood, Jonathan, d. not before 1812
former owner: Rogers, Henry A., d. not before 1812
former owner: Rogers, J. H. (John Henry), 1845-1911
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
printer: Munroe, Francis & Parker
bookseller: Munroe, Francis & Parker
bookseller: Ezra Sargeant & Co.
bookseller: Hopkins and Earle