Forty plates illustrating As you like it, Macbeth, Hamlet, Merry wives of Windsor, Much ado about nothing, Twelfth night, Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Winter's tale, and Romeo and Juliet (4 plates for each play) each with a leaf of quotation. Engraved by Charles and Isaac Taylor, jun. (one each by William Sharp and Joseph Thornthwaite) from drawings by Robert Smirke and Thomas Stothard.

Originally issued in ten numbers, each plate is individually dated from between 1783 and 1787.

Engraved title-page.

ESTC, 77805

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy lacks title-page; title and imprint information from RLIN.

Victoria University Library imperfect: lacks plates and leaves of quotation for the Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Winter's tale, and Romeo and Juliet.

Victoria University Library copy bound with: Pye, Henry James. Naucratia, or, Naval dominion. London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for George Nicol ..., 1798.