The works of Shakespear : in nine volumes : with notes selected from the best authors, explanatory and critical.
Uniform title
Plays. 1768. Martin
Created/published
Birmingham : Printed by R. Martin; and sold by A. Donaldson, London; R. Goadby, Sherborne; R. Bond, Glocester; M. Morgan, Lichfield; and T. Smith, Wolverhampton, MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Produced at Garrick's suggestion for sale at the great Stratford jubilee of 1769; and the first Warwickshire edition (Jaggard, p. 502). In fact the dramatic works only, printed in Baskerville type. General title page undated; publication date from volume title pages. Vol. 1 with a general title page. All volumes with dated volume title pages reading "The works of Shakespear : from Mr. Pope's edition"; v.1 vol. title page with "Wolverhamton" misspelled in imprint. All plays with divisional half-titles. Each volume has the portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare "specially engraved for this edition" (Jaggard, p. 502).
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost v. 3. As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night v. 4. Comedy of errors ; Winter's tale ; King John ; King Richard II v. 5. King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 v. 6. King Henry VI, parts 2-3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII v. 7. King Lear ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth v. 8. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), T138598 Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 502 Gaskell, P. Baskerville bibliography, Appendix, Add. 4
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Birmingham. Great Britain -- England -- London. Great Britain -- England -- Sherborne (Gloucestershire). Great Britain -- England -- Gloucester. Great Britain -- England -- Lichfield. Great Britain -- England -- Wolverhampton.
Item Details
Call number
PR2752 1768c copy 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Autograph: Wm. Mousley, 1816. The gift of Henry N. Paul. Bound in calf with red leather spine labels and speckled edges.
Folger accession
5923
Call number
PR2752 1768c copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking plates; v.6 lacking vol. t.p. Bookplate: Shakespeare Library, Warwick Castle. Half vellum binding with marbled paper boards and red leather spine labels; spine titles inked-in where labels are lacking.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present
Call number
PR2752 1768c copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking general t.p. and plates. With bookseller's description removed to Curatorial file. Full blue leather binding with edges gilt and marbled endpapers.
