Front cover image for The plays of William Shakspeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq. : with glossarial notes, and a sketch of the life of Shakspeare : in eight volumes

The plays of William Shakspeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq. : with glossarial notes, and a sketch of the life of Shakspeare : in eight volumes

Print Book, English, 1823
Published by H.C. Carey, and I. Lea, and M'Carty & Davis, Philadelphia, 1823
Drama
8 v. : ill. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
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v. 1. Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. The tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure
v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Measure for measure ; Love's labours lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it
v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth
v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part I ; King Henry IV, part II ; King Henry V
v. 5. King Henry VI, part I ; King Henry VI, part II ; King Henry VI, part III ; King Richard III
v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbaline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles
v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Stereotyper precedes publication information on title page; "N. York" follows "Howe."
Each volume has a frontispiece and an added engraved title page; engravers were W. Hay, C.G. Childs, F. Kearney, G.B. Ellis