The plays of William Shakespeare : in ten volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Theobald, Thomas Hanmer, William Warburton, Nicholas Rowe, A. Leathley (Bookseller), C. Wynne (Bookseller), Peter Wilson (Bookseller), John Exshaw (Bookseller), Henry Saunders (Bookseller), James Potts (Bookseller), Samuel Watson (Bookseller), John Mitchell (Bookseller), James Williams (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, MDCCLXVI [1766]
Printed for A. Leathley; C. Wynne; P. Wilson; J. Exshaw; H. Saunders; J. Potts; S. Watson; J. Mitchell; and J. Williams, Dublin, MDCCLXVI [1766]
10 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 17 cm (12mo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Winter's tale ; Twelfth night ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; All's well that ends well ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 ; King Henry IV, part 2
v. 6. King Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 ; King Henry VI, part 2 ; King Henry VI, part 3
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; King Lear
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Coriolanus
v. 9. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Vol. 1 advertisement: "the publishers have not omitted any opportunity of making this edition as compleat as possible. They have carefully corrected a large errata in that printed in London; and also, with great pains and trouble have distributed into their proper places a number of curious notes, sent to Mr. Johnson by some of his learned friends, and by him inserted in an appendix. They have also made some valuable additions from the Twenty plays of Shakespeare, lately published by that ingenious critic George Stevens, Esq., by which means they hope to give this edition a preference to any now extant."
Vol. 1 with a general title page. Volumes 1-10 with dated volume title pages, with v. 3 mis-dated 1756. Volumes 3-10 with volume divisional-titles reading: "the plays of William Shakespeare". All plays with a half-title
Engraved frontispiece portrait unattributed
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
The bookseller H. Bradley's name does not appear on the title pages of the individual volumes. Variant: H. Bradley does not appear in the imprint on the collective title page in vol. 1