Front cover image for The dramatic works of William Shakspeare

The dramatic works of William Shakspeare

Print Book, English, 1826
Charles Whittingham, College House, Chiswick [London], 1826
Biographies
10 v. : ill., 1 port. (wood engravings) ; 18 cm (12mo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Printer information from title page verso
"With sixty engravings on wood, by John Thompson; from drawings by Stothard, Corbould, Harvey, etc. ... in ten volumes" (volume 1 half-title)
Original printing blocks for volume title page vignettes (which spell out publisher's name) now in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Plays with divisional titles reading "from the Chiswick Press, 1826."
With a final page in v. 10 of Whittingham's advertisements