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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4 The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1778 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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