The first edition of Shakespeare's Works produced outside the British Isles (Jaggard).

Volumes 1-3 are dated 1795, volumes 4-8 are dated 1796.

All volumes with a volume title page and volume half-title; each play and the Poems of Shakspeare with a divisional title.

All plays are paginated and signed continuously. The poems are paginated and signed separately from the plays in v. 8.

Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: Engraved by R. Field.

Preface by the American editors, the life of the author, and a glossary in v. 1.

ESTC W28892

Evans, 29496, 31180

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 507

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy 1 bound by Thomas Condie in full, red, straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt. Condie's binders' ticket is present on the front pastedown, as is the armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. The autograph of Maria E. Diamond is present at the head of all title pages.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy 2 halfbound in brown leather and papier tourniquet over boards (as described by Wolfe in Marbled papers). The embossed stamp of the Library is present on the title pages.