The dramatic works ...
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Peter Maverick (Engraver), Thomas Gimbrede (Engraver), Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co (Engraver)
Print Book, English, 1817-18
Published by Henry Durell, New York, 1817-18
Portraits
10 volumes : plates ; 22 cm
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v. 1. Some account of Shakespeare's life and writings / written by N. Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. An essay on the learning of Shakespeare : addressed to Joseph Cradock, Esq. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor
v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. As you like it
v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Taming of the shrew
v. 4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth
v. 5. King John. Richard the Second. Henry the Fourth, pt. 1-2
v. 6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, pt. 1-3
v. 7. Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus
v. 8. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus
v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet
v. 10. Hamlet. Othello. Pericles, prince of Tyre
Large paper ed.; cf. Folger
The ill. are leaves of plates serving as frontispieces to the volumes or to individual plays; the plates were engraved chiefly by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co., or by P. Maverick (with or without associates), after various artists
Vol. 1 has frontispiece port. of Shakespeare by Gimbrede
Each v. has half-title: Volume ... of Shakespeare's works. Containing ... Copied from the text of Dr. Reed. With notes by Johnson, Steevens, and others. Stereotype edition