Shakspeare's dramatic works : with explanatory notes / by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, F.S.A. and assistant librarian of the British Museum ; embellished with a striking likeness of Shakspeare, from the original folio edition.

Shakspeare's dramatic works : with explanatory notes / by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, F.S.A. and assistant librarian of the British Museum ; embellished with a striking likeness of Shakspeare, from the original folio edition.

Plays. 1790. John Stockdale

A new edition to which is now added a copious index to the remarkable passages and words.

London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, MDCCXC [1790]

3 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 24 cm (8vo)

Edition statement follows "explanatory notes" on title page.

Vol. 1-2 are continuously paginated and are printed in 2 columns.

Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: Engraved by W. Sherwin from the original Folio edition; publish'd Septr. 1790 by Iohn Stockdale.

Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe in v.1.

With a list of subscribers and booksellers; and notes to bookbinders, including spine labels for binding, in v. 1. With errata, and 4 final leaves of Stockdale's advertisements in v. 3.

copy 3 v.1-3
copy 4 v.1
copy 5 v.1-2
copy 7 v.3
copy 8 v.1-2

Alston, R.C. Bibliography of the English language, III.752
English short title catalogue (ESTC), T138291; N7341
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 505

Great Britain -- England -- London.

PR2752 1790a copy 1 Sh.Col.

In ink manuscript (v.1): "To George Clarke, Esq. from Augustus M. Swift, New York, April of 1873. Bought in London at the sale of the library of the Marquis of Hastings, 1868." Autograph on v.1 t.p.: H.H.W. Autographs v.2-3: George Clarke, "leading man", Fifth Avenue Theatre, 1872-3-, and at Madison Square Theatre, 1880-1. Bookseller's description of non-Shakeseare materials, in pencil manuscript "502/3", removed to Curatorial file. Half-bound in modern cloth and paper boards, edges gilt. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs564

PR2752 1790a copy 2 Sh.Col.

Lacking leaves of instructions to bookbinders (v.1) and advertisements (v.3). Tree-calf binding with filleting and marbled endpapers.

No case or acc. number present

PR2752 1790a copy 3 Sh.Col.

Lacking leaf of instructions to bookbinders (v.1). Autograph: J. Boyers. Bound in calf with red leather spine labels. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs810

PR2752 1790a copy 4 Sh.Col.

Lacking leaf of instructions to bookbinders (v.1). Bookseller's description removed to Curatorial file. Armorial bookplate (motto: Utcunque placuerit deo) of Mary Ann Mangles. Autograph v.3: Geo. Mangles. Bound in diced leather with marbled endpapers. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs203

PR2752 1790a copy 5 Sh.Col.

Imperfect: lacking Index; lacking v.1 title page and binder instructions. Bookplate of William Winter overlaying that of Thomas Andrew in v. 1; Andrew's armorial bookplate (motto: Semper paratus) in v.2. "A gift to my father from Louis N. Parker" (v.1). Autograph v.2: Richd. Garmons, Jun 1797, Colomondy. Tree-calf binding. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs1732

PR2752 1790a copy 6 Sh.Col.

Lacking leaf of instructions to bookbinders (v.1); Rowe's The Life bound in v.2. Richard Grant White's copy with his manuscript notes in pencil. Bound in red leather with filleting on spines and marbled endpapers. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs1036

PR2752 1790a copy 7 v.3 Index Sh.Col.

Imperfect: wanting v.1-2. Autographs: Geo. V. Watkins; Geo. H. P[h?]iper, Sol Ledbury. Pages are untrimmed, measuring 26 cm. Quarter bound with paper boards and printed paper spine label: "Ayscough's complete Index to all the editions of Shakspeare; price £2.12s.6d." Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs1285

PR2752 1790a copy 8 Sh.Col.

Reclassified from PR2752 1790a c.8 As.Col. Imperfect: v.3 Index wanting. Manuscript notes doubtfully ascribed to Charles Lamb (Folger card catalog). Manuscript contents list in v.2. Armorial bookplate (motto: Non nobis nascimur) of T.W. Bookplate: Relics of Charles Lamb, purchased at Edward Moxon's Sale by Francis Jackson, Esq. ... 1805, Red House, Mare Street, Hackney. Half leather with marbled paper-covered boards; deckle edges. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs1639

PR2752 1790a copy 9 Sh.Col.

Reclassified from PR2752 1790a c.9 As.Col. Imperfect: v.3 Index wanting; v.1-2 bound in one volume. Manuscript poem of Sir Walter Scott "a human eye ... abhorred history" on card pasted into front endpaper. Autograph: Southey, 1802. Anonymous armorial bookplate (motto: In labore quies). Bound in speckled leather with black spine label and filleting. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

cs565