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Twenty of the plays of Shakespeare : being the whole number printed in quarto during his life-time or before the Restoration : collated where there were different copies, and publish'd from the originals

Print Book, English, MDCCLXVI [1766]
Printed for J. and R. Tonson ..., T. Payne ..., and W. Richardson ..., London, MDCCLXVI [1766]
Early works
4 v. ; 21 cm (8vo)
5168952
(From contents pages) v. 1. A midsommer nights dreame. 1600. A pleasant comedy of the merry wiues of Windsor, 1619. The merry wiues of Windsor, 1630. Much adoe about nothing, 1600. The comicall history of the merchant of Venice, 1600. Loues labour's lost, 1631
v. 2. The taming of the shrew, 1631. The history of King Lear, 1608. The troublesome raigne of King Iohn, in two parts, 1611. The tragedie of Richard the Second, 1615. The historie of Henry the Fourth, 1613. The second part of Henry the Fourth, 1600
v. 3. The chronicle history of Henry the Fift, 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts, (no date.) The tragedie of Richard the Third, 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus, 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida, 1609
v. 4. The most excellent tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, 1597. The most lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, 1609. The tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke, 1611. The tragedy of Othello, the moore of Venice, 1622. Shakespeares sonnets and louers complaint, 1609. The history of King Leir and his three daughters, 1605
Unpaged
Each play and the sonnets has separate title page
Later reissued in a 6-volume set
Signatures, vol. 1: [a]⁴ b⁸ A-2E⁸ 2F⁸(-2F8.)
Signatures, vol. 2: [A]² B-2N⁸ 2O⁸(-2O7, 2O8.)
Signatures, vol. 3: pi² A-2H⁸ 2I⁸(-2I8.)
Signatures: vol. 4: pi² A-2P⁸
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Imperfect: wanting title page in v. 4
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