Shakespeare boiled down : written expressly for the New Home Sewing Machine Co.
1890
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Shakespeare boiled down : written expressly for the New Home Sewing Machine Co.
Published
Chicago : New Home Sewing Machine Co., [between 1890 and 1893]
Printed
Chicago : Libby, Printer
Copyright
©1890
Description
32 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Note
Caption title.
Large cover illustration of Shakespeare's bust in a kettle of boiling water.
Advertising matter at end.
"Copyright 1890 by Geo. L. Gray"--Front wrapper.
Plays appear in different order than in other editions.
Printer [G.M.D.] Libby became the Libby & Sherwood Printing Co. in 1893.
Large cover illustration of Shakespeare's bust in a kettle of boiling water.
Advertising matter at end.
"Copyright 1890 by Geo. L. Gray"--Front wrapper.
Plays appear in different order than in other editions.
Printer [G.M.D.] Libby became the Libby & Sherwood Printing Co. in 1893.
Contents
Merchant of Venice
Pericles, prince of Tyre
Cymbeline
King John
Hamlet, Prince of Denmar
Two gentlemen of Verona
Henry Eighth
King Henry Fourth
King Henry Fifth
King Henry Sixth
Merry wives of Windsor
Richard Second
Richard Third
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Troilus and Cressida
Midsummer night's dream
Taming of the shrew
As you like it
Titus Andronicus
Coriolanus
Love's labor lost
Comedy of errors
Much ado about nothing
All's well that ends well
Twelfth night, or what you will
The tempest
Winter's tale
Antony and Cleopatra
King Lear
Measure for measure
Timon of Athens
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Strong points in favor of the New Home.
Pericles, prince of Tyre
Cymbeline
King John
Hamlet, Prince of Denmar
Two gentlemen of Verona
Henry Eighth
King Henry Fourth
King Henry Fifth
King Henry Sixth
Merry wives of Windsor
Richard Second
Richard Third
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Troilus and Cressida
Midsummer night's dream
Taming of the shrew
As you like it
Titus Andronicus
Coriolanus
Love's labor lost
Comedy of errors
Much ado about nothing
All's well that ends well
Twelfth night, or what you will
The tempest
Winter's tale
Antony and Cleopatra
King Lear
Measure for measure
Timon of Athens
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Strong points in favor of the New Home.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1979-1982. Shakespeare, the Globe, and the World(?). Closed.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1994. Roasting the Swan of Avon. Closed.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. America's Shakespeare. Closed.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1994. Roasting the Swan of Avon. Closed.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. America's Shakespeare. Closed.
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United States -- Illinois -- Chicago, -- manufacture place, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
Sh.Misc. 776
Folger-specific note
Original printed wrappers.
Folger accession
cs1936