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The plays of William Shakspeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq. : with glossarial notes

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (Attributed name), T. A. Dean (Printmaker), Henry Neill Paul (Former owner), Emily Lygon (Former owner)
Print Book, English, 1823
A new edition, in ten volumes View all formats and editions
Printed for F., C., and J. Rivington, T. Egerton, J. Cuthell, J. Scatcherd, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, J. and W.T. Clarke, J. Booker, J. Booth, J. Richardson, J.M. Richardson, R.H. Evans, J. Mawman, R. Scholey, W. Earle, J. Bohn, C. Brown, R. Pheney, Baldwin and Co., Newman and Co., Ogle and Co., T. Tegg, T. Hamilton, W. Wood, J. Sheldon, Whitmore and Fenn, Harding and Co., E. Edwards, W. Mason, G. Mackie, J.H. Bohte, T. Wilkie, G. and W.B. Whittaker, Kingsbury and Co., Simpkin and Co., and R. Saunders; also for Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; Wilson and Sons, York; for Stirling and Slade, A. Black, P. Brown, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh, London, 1823
Printed waste (Binding)
10 v. : port. ; 16 cm (12mo)
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v. 1. Some account of the life &c. / by Mr. Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Mids. 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, part 1 King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI, part 1 ; King Henry VI, part 2 ; King Henry VI, part 3
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
"Advertisement" signed: W.H., possibly William Hazlitt
Printer from colophon
Each volume has a half-title and volume
Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare in v. 1 lettered: Dean, sculpt
"A few sets were done on large paper"--Jaggard