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The complete works of William Shakespeare : the text and order of the first folio with quarto variants a choice of modern readings noted marginally : to which are added 'Pericles' and the first quartos of six of the plays with three plays of doubtful authorship : also the poems according to the original quartos and octavos / the Nonesuch text established MCMXXIX by Herbert Farjeon, with a new introduction by Ivor Brown.

Contents: Vol. 1, Comedies, with the prefaratory matter from the first folio, the note on the text by Herbert Farjeon and a new introduction by Ivor Brown. -- Vol. 2, Histories and Troylus and Cressida according to its placing in the first folio. -- Vol. 3, Tragedies and Pericles. With three plays of doubtful authorship, namely Two Noble Kinsmen, Edward III, Sir Thomas Moore. -- Vol. 4, Poems, Venus and Adonis, The rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets, A lovers complaint, The passionate pilgrime, Sonnets to sundry notes of musicke, The phoenix and turtle., Half title: The new Nonesuch Shakespeare. "This edition is dedicated to ... Queen Elizabeth II ... in the year of her coronation".