The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected
8 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 3. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1
v. 4. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI
v. 5. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus
v. 6. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles
v. 7. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
v. 8. Venus and Adonis ; The rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets. Illustration of the sonnets. A lover's complaint ; The passionate pilgrim ; Verses among the additional poems to Chester's Love's martyr (1601). Illustrations of A lover's complaint, The passionate pilgrim, &c. Supplementary notice to the poems. Supplementary notice to the Roman plays
Vol. 1 frontispiece lettered: Holl, sc. Added, engraved t.p. lettered: H. Billings, del.; D.L. Glover, sc. Other plates engraved by D.L. Glover, T. Kelley, F. Halpin, Rice, Buttre, O. Pelton from works by J. Hayter, A. Egg, Corbould, Frith, J.W. Wright, K. Meadows, A. Johnston, Sir J. Reynolds
Edited by Oliver W.B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare", by Collier
Apparently printed from stereotypes of the 1836 edition, with the Poems added in v.8 (Jaggard)
Vol. 8 has title: The poetical works of William Shakspeare : with notes illustrative and explanatory : together with a supplementary notice to the Roman plays