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Love's labour's lost : a comedy / by Mr. William Shakespear.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, bookseller.; Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954, former owner.; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.; Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716, illustrator.; Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811, former owner.; Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
1735
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Title
Love's labour's lost : a comedy / by Mr. William Shakespear.
Uniform title
Love's labour's lost
Created/published
London : Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXV [1735]
Description
84 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. (engraving) ; 16 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, bookseller.
Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954, former owner.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716, illustrator.
Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811, former owner.
Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
Note
"A reprint of Pope's 1728 text"--Folger card catalog.

Signatures: A-C¹² D⁶.

Frontispiece lettered: Lud. Du Guernier inv.

The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall (ESTC).

Also issued as part of The works of Shakespeare v. 2, London, 1735.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), T54714
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, 160
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR1240 v.24 Cage
Call number
PR2822 1735 copy 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Bookplate: Shakespeare Library, Warwick Castle. Half leather binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers. Halliwell-Phillipps copy. Frontispiece cropped at bottom affecting text.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present
Call number
PR2822 1735 copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
In brown wrappers.
Folger accession
cs6
Call number
PR2822 1735 copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
In contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Autograph: Thos. Percy.
Folger accession
cs13
Call number
PR2752 1734-35b copy 9 v. 2 item 5 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Copy 9 consists of 8 vols. of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1734-35 by Tonson, bound in a different order than the collected works, and lacking vol. title pages; this play is the fifth of five in v. 2. Mottled calf binding with marbled endpapers. Gift of Henry N. Paul.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present