The works of Shakespear : in eight volumes : the genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled, being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last : with a comment and notes, critical and explanatory / by Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton.

The works of Shakespear : in eight volumes : the genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled, being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last : with a comment and notes, critical and explanatory / by Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton.

Plays. 1747

London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton; S. Birt; T. Longman and T. Shewell; H. Lintott; C. Hitch; J. Brindley; J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; R. Wellington; E. New; and B. Dod, MDCCXLVII [1747]

8 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Contains the plays only.

Vol. 1 with a general title page; all volumes with a dated volume title page, errata on volume title page verso; all plays with an individual play half-title.

Engraved frontispiece plate lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit.

Vol. 1 with a preface, Mr. Pope's preface, Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare by Mr. Rowe, and a table. Vol. 8 with an index.

v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure
v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew
v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Comedy of errors ; Winter's tale ; King John
v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1
v. 5. King Henry VI, parts 2-3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 6. King Lear ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.

copy 2 v. 1-8
copy 5 v. 5-6
copy 5 v. 1-4,7-8
copy 4 v.1-2,4-8
copy 5 v.1-8

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T138851
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 500

Great Britain -- England -- London.

PR2752 1747a copy 1 Sh.Col.

Some pencil markings. Autograph v. 8: [R.?] Cecil. Quarter calf binding with cloth-covered boards; bound by Robert Lunow; spine lettered: "Warburton's Shakespeare." Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

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PR2752 1747a copy 2 Sh.Col.

Imperfect: lacking v. 6; shelved with photocopy of v. 6 from University College Library Aberystwyth, bound in red library cloth binding. Inscription v. 1: "RB-this copy was [cent (ie. sent)?] by Sir Edward Walpole to Dr. Johnson, who lost the sixth volume-Sir John Hawkins promised Mr. Roberts it should be delivered faithfully to him, if ever found-ER." Vol. 1 general t.p., following 'works of Shakespear' in ink: "with manuscript notes by the learned Styan Thirlby." Vol. 1, p. 272-273 inserted note regarding Thirlby's annotations, and that Thirlby bequeathed the set to Walpole, signed "R.H. [Richard Hurd], 7 July 1777." Quarter red cloth binding with brown paper-covered boards, top edges gilt and deckle fore and bottom edges.

No case or acc. number present

PR2752 1747a copy 4 Sh.Col.

Imperfect: lacking v. 3. Manuscript annotations in each volume; manicules. Illegible red stamp on volume t.p. Vol. 1: Folger note: "v. iv, sign. Cc3, where in this set the cancellandum is by accident left in place of the usual cancellans. G.E.D. [Giles Dawson], 7 Feb. [19]41"; final endpaper, manuscript catechism "Pardon O God of heaven, pardon me I pray ... and bring us all O God to everylasting life. Amen. J.W. Jan. vi, 1768." manuscript note v. 5: "Mss. conjechures by J. Whiston." Shipping labels removed from v. 4 & 7 to Curatorial file. Full calf binding with blind tooling along edge. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs1300

PR2752 1747a copy 5 Sh.Col.

Warburton's copy and manuscript annotations; passages crossed out in many plays; v. 6, leaf 2B3 cut into at foot with loss of text. Vol. 1 manuscript in ink: "Of all the idiots, and they are not a few, who have scribbled upon Shakespear, and against his Editor, the most consummate, sure, is one Capel, who has wasted above thirty years of life in hunting after the text of Shakespear. And has at last given it to us so ridiculously interpolated that we are now at a loss to distinguish nonsense from the nonsense of the first blundering printers. W."; "This copy ... given to Eleanor Newton by the widow of the Revd. Martin Stafford Smith whose first wife was Bp Warburton's widow"; manuscript note pinned to leaf O4v of Two Gentlemen, signed "E.M." (v.1). Armorial bookplate (motto: Tu Ne Cede Malis) of Martin Stafford Smith. Autograph: Eleanor Newton. Full sprinkled calf binding with marbled endpapers. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs1674