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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected

Print Book, English, 1846
Phillips and Sampson, Boston, 1846
7 volumes : portrait ; 24 cm
191228911
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 3. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1
v. 4. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI
v. 5. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus
v. 6. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline; Pericles ; Titus Andronicus
v. 7. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Same setting of type as the 1844 edition published by C. Little and J. Brown
Edited by O.W. Peabody. The life of the poet abridged from that by Dr. Symmons; notes mainly from Singer's edition
Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: Holl sculpsit
Not in Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography
With an essay New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare, signed by J. Payne Collier