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The plays of William Shakespeare : in eight volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes

William Shakespeare (Author), Samuel Johnson (Writer of preface), Alexander Pope (Writer of preface), Thomas Hanmer (Writer of preface), Theobald (Writer of preface), William Warburton (Writer of preface), Nicholas Rowe, H. S. Woodfall (Bookseller), Charles Bathurst (Bookseller), John Beecroft (Bookseller), William Strahan (Bookseller), John Hinton (Bookseller), Richard Baldwin (Bookseller), R. Horsfield (Bookseller), W. Johnston (Bookseller), W. Owen (Bookseller), Thomas Caslon (Bookseller), Thomas Longman (Bookseller), Charles Corbet (Bookseller), T. Cadell (Bookseller), Edward Johnson (Bookseller), Benjamin White (Bookseller), George Keith (Bookseller), J. Hardy (Bookseller), Thomas Lowndes (Bookseller), Thomas Davies (Bookseller), James Robson (Bookseller), Thomas Becket (Bookseller), Francis Newbery (Bookseller), George Vertue (Printmaker), J. and F. Rivington (Firm) (Bookseller), L. Davis and C. Reymers (London, England) (Bookseller), Hawes, Clarke and Collins (Bookseller), E. & C. Dilly (Firm) (Bookseller), Robinson and Roberts (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, 1768
Printed for H. Woodfall; C. Bathurst; J. Beecroft; W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; J. Hinton; Davis and Reymers; R. Baldwin; Hawes, Clarke and Collins; R. Horsfield; W. Johnston; W. Owen; T. Caslon; T. Longman; E. and C. Dilly; C. Corbett; T. Cadell; E. Johnson; B. White; G. Keith; J. Hardy; T. Lowndes; T. Davies; J. Robson; T. Becket; F. Newbery; and Robinson and Roberts, London, 1768
Drama
8 volumes : 1 portrait ; 22 cm (8vo)
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Vol. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Measure for measure ; Merchant of Venice
v. 2. As you like it ; Love's labour's lost ; Winter's tale ; Twelfth-night ; Merry wives of Windsor
v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; All's well that ends well ; King John
v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 ; King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1
v. 5. King Henry VI, part 2 ; King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 6. King Lear ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Volume 1 with a general title page. Volumes 1-8 with dated volume title pages. Volumes 2-8 with volume divisional-titles. All plays with a half-title
Vol. 1 with the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, and Warburton, and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe. Vol. 8 with an appendix
Engraved frontispiece lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit
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