Front cover image for Shakespeare's plays : with his life : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts

Shakespeare's plays : with his life : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts

Print Book, English, 1847
Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, [NY], 1847
Biographies
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
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v. 1. Histories. Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's will
King John
King Richard the second
King Henry the fourth
King Henry the sixth
Richard the third
King Henry the eighth
v. 2. Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona
Comedy of errors
Taming the shrew
Much ado about nothing
Love's labour's lost
Merchant of Venice
Merry wives of Windsor
Twelfth night; or, what you will
As you like it
Midsummer night's dream
Measure for measure
Tempest
A;;'s well that ends well
Winter's tale
v. 3. Tragedies. Romeo and Juliet
Othello, the moor of Venice
Hamlet, prince of Denmark
Macbeth
King Lear
Cymbeline
Timon of Athens
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
Troilus and Cressida
Titus Andronicus
Pericles, prince of Tyre
The first American illustrated Shakespeare. Complete sets of this, the only printing, are scarce due to destruction of the plates in Harper's 1853 fire (See Westfall)
Issued in parts, most with wrappers having title: Harper's illuminated and illustrated Shakespeare. The fascicles, though numbered, were not intended to be bound in numerical order. The order prescribed by the publisher and printed in the table of contents (v. 1.p. [iii]) is that followed in the LC copy; Verplanck, however, urged (v. 1, p. xiii) subscribers to arrange the plays--within the three groups, Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies--in the order of their composition. To this end, the plays are each separately paged, without continuous pagination
The text is based on Collier's; illustrations from Knight's pictorial edition. (See Jaggard)
Each volume with an added, illustrated title page
With Some account of the life of William Shakespeare, written by Rowe, and A life of William Shakespeare, abridged from Collier