The plays of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : with corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes
1778
The plays of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : with corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
1778
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 10 v. : 22 cm (8vo) The first edition edited by Isaac Reed (Jaggard, p. 504) Volume 1 with general title page; volumes 2-10 with volume half-titles; each volume with volume title pages; each play with divisional half-titles Volume 1 with engraved portraits after Droeshout, and Marshall; as well as an unlettered illustration of the Globe Theatre. King Henry IV, part 2 with a folded engraving lettered: Morris dancers, J. Keyse Sherwin sculpsit. Some plays with woodcuts illustrating editorial notes. Twelfth-night with music Volume 1 with three leaves consisting of a comprehensive table of contents: "plays, &c. contained in each volume"; errata; and directions to the binder Volume 1 preliminaries include the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton; Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe; Shakespeare's will, followed by a tipped-in leaf with a reproduction of Shakespeare's autograph; Granger's catalogue of portraits of Shakespeare; and Malone's Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 5. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV -- v. 6. King Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus -- v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
