The Works of Mr William Shakespear
Volume the First: Consisting of Comedies
by William Shakespeare
Contains:
Comedy of Errors
Measure for Measure
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Tempest
Two Gentlemen of Verona
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mistaken identities, performing arts, comedy, Drama, Conspiracies, Rejection (Psychology), Courtship, Juvenile drama, Plays, English drama, Fiction, Classic Literature, English drama (Comedy), Juvenile literature, English literature: Shakespeare texts, Classics, tragicomedy, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Magicians, Fathers and daughters, Castaways, Spirits, Shipwreck victims, English literature, Political refugees, English Young adult drama, Islands, Shipwreck survival, Children's playsPeople
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Don Pedro, Don John, Claudio, Benedick, Leonato, Antonio, Balthasar, Borachio, Conrade, Friar Francis, Dogberry, Verges, A Sexton, A Boy, Hero, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula, Messengers, Watch, Attendants, Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Sycorax, Iris, Ceres, Juno, Alonso, Sebastian, Ferdinand, GonzaloShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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With a cancel general title page and the original title pages to vols. 2-6 bearing the title "The works of Mr. William Shakespear" and the imprint: Printed for Jacob Tonson, MDCCXXIII.
A supplementary volume of poems was also issued in 1725, "To which is prefix'd, an essay onthe art, rise, and progress of the stage, in Greece, Rome, and England [by C. Gildon] ...The whole revis'd and corrected, with a preface by Dr. Sewell. London, Printed by J. Darby for A. Bettesworth [etc.]
General title, in vol. 1, printed in red and black.
Head- and tailpieces; initials.
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare, 1700-1740, p. 19-21
ESTC N26060
Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 2
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under G.4021.1 bound variously in modern red morocco with papier tourniquet (vol. 1) and ca. 18th-century red morocco panelled and tooled in gilt with spines rebacked (vols. 2-6). The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on all front pastedowns and that of the Cowper family, with the motto "Tuum est," on vols. 2-6. A small publisher's advertisement for Halliwell-Phillipps' Shakespeare folio edition is laid onto the pastedown of vol. 2.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under PR2752 .P7 1725x (formerly 4591.1) bound in various modern library bindings.
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