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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : volume the first[-the seventh]

Print Book, English, 1818
Whittingham's ed
Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1818
7 volumes : illustrations, portrait
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v. 1. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure.- v. 2. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well.- v. 3. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II.- v. 4. King Henry IV, Parts I-II. King Henry V. King Henry VI, Parts I-II.- v. 5. King Henry VI, Part III. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens.- v. 6. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus.- v. 7. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
Half title: Shakspeare : in seven volumes : with two hundred and thirty embellishments; a life of the poet; the preface by Dr. Johnson; and a glossarial index ..
Each play has special t.p. with imprint "From the Chiswick Press", dated 1816, 1817 or 1818; and separate paging
"Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeare / written expressly for this edition, in 1814; revised and altered, in March, 1818, by John Britton": v. 1, p. [ix]-xliii