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Author
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Date published
1709
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Publisher
London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1709.
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Subject
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Accession number
83000267
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Class
SR 38/1709
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Language
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Physical description
6 v., [58] leaves of plates (inc. fronts.) : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
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Credit line
CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
General note: Each play has a separate title page with the imprint: "Printed in the year 1709." and an accompanying frontispiece.
Formatted contents note: Volume I: The tempest ; The two gentlemen of Verona ; The merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- Volume II: A midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night, or, What you will ; The winter's tale -- Volume III: King John ; King Richard II ; Henry IV Part I ; Henry IV Part II ; King Henry V ; King Henry VI Part I ; King Henry VI Part II -- Volume IV: King Henry VI Part III ; Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus -- Volume V: Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ; King Lear ; Othello -- Volume VI: Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; London prodigal ; Thomas Lord Cromwell ; Sir John Oldcastle ; The puritan ; A Yorkshire tragedy ; Locrine.
Provenance note: Volume IV. Bookplates on the left paste-down: Caleb S. Mann; initials J. S. below a bird.
Binding note: 'Russia-effect' leather binding with gold-tooling to boards and spine.
References: ESTC T138296.