Shakespeare, William. Twenty of the plays of Shakespeare : being the whole number printed in quarto during his life-time, or before the Restoration

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 501-502
Folger bibliographic ID: 263443
Folger call number: PR2752 1766c copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 348889
Accession Number: cs70

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

This is the heavy paper issue, printed in only 12 copies, where the text-block is approximately 4.1 cm thick. There is also a small paper issue, cataloged separately, where the text-block is approximately 2.8 cm thick Each volume with a general and volume title page, each play with an individual play title page. The whole set is unpaginated Not in ESTC; see T140378 Also available as a digital reproduction

Contents

v. 1. A midsommer nights dreame, 1600 ; A pleasant comedy of the merry wiues of Windsor, 1619 ; The merry wiues of Windsor, 1630 ; Much adoe about nothing, 1600 ; The comicall history of the merchant of Venice, 1600 ; Loues labour's lost, 1631 -- v. 2. The taming of the shrew, 1631 ; The history of King Lear, 1608 ; The troublesome raigne of King Iohn, in two parts, 1611 ; The tragedie of Richard the Second, 1615 ; The historie of Henry the Fourth, 1613 ; The second part of Henry the Fourth, 1600 -- v. 3. The chronicle history of Henry the Fift, 1608 ; The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts, (no date) ; The tragedie of Richard the Third, 1612 ; The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus, 1611 ; The history of Troylus and Cresseida, 1609 -- v. 4. The most excellent tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, 1597 ; The most lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, 1609 ; The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, 1611 ; The tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice, 1622 ; Shakespeares sonnets and Louers complaint, 1609 ; The history of King Leir and his three daughters, 1605

Item information about Folger PR2752 1766c copy 1 Sh.Col

Bound in calf, with red leather spine labels and marbled endpapers. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger

Uniform title: Works. 1766 Selections
Extended title: Twenty of the plays of Shakespeare : being the whole number printed in quarto during his life-time, or before the Restoration / collated where there were different copies, and publish'd from the originals, by George Steevens, Esq., in four volumes

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
bookseller: Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799
bookseller: Richardson, William, 1735 or 1736-1811
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
bookseller: J. and R. Tonson