The plays and poems of William Shakspeare : corrected from the latest and best London editions, with notes
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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare : corrected from the latest and best London editions, with notes
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- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, editor; Field, Robert, 1769?-1819, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Diamond, Maria E., former owner; Condie, Thomas, 1775?-1814, binder; Bioren & Madan, publisher
- Publication date
- 1795
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Bioren & Madan
- Collection
- bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
- Volume
- v.1
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
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it -- v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Troilus and Cressida ; Titus Andronicus ; Cymbeline ; King Lear -- v. 8. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello ; Venus and Adonis ; Tarquin and Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate pilgrim ; Lover's complaint
ESTC
Evans
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography
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
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
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it -- v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Troilus and Cressida ; Titus Andronicus ; Cymbeline ; King Lear -- v. 8. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello ; Venus and Adonis ; Tarquin and Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate pilgrim ; Lover's complaint
ESTC
Evans
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography
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
Notes
No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
- Addeddate
- 2014-08-13 14:56:09.609642
- Associated-names
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, editor; Field, Robert, 1769?-1819, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Diamond, Maria E., former owner; Condie, Thomas, 1775?-1814, binder; Bioren & Madan, publisher
- Call number
- PR2752.J7 1795
- Camera
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1050809124
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- playspoemsofwill01shak
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t2q55cp9b
- Invoice
- 6
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL32225417M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL362649W
- Page-progression
- lr
- Page_number_confidence
- 94
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 450
- Ppi
- 500
- References
- ESTC W28892; Evans, 29496, 31180; Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 507
- Republisher_date
- 20140821191550
- Republisher_operator
- associate-christopher-hall@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20140820190004
- Scanner
- scribe9.boston.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- boston
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 2125346
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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