The dramatick works of William Shakespeare : printed complete with Dr. Samuel Johnson's preface and notes : to which is prefixed the life of the author.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.; Steevens, George, 1736-1800.; Francis, David, 1779-1853.; Lowell, Robert, 1816-1891, former owner.; Lowell, Percy, d. not before 1808, former owner.; Munroe & Francis, printer.; Munroe, Francis & Parker, printer.
1807
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Title
The dramatick works of William Shakespeare : printed complete with Dr. Samuel Johnson's preface and notes : to which is prefixed the life of the author.
Uniform title
Works. 1807. Munroe & Francis
Edition
Second edition.
Created/published
Boston : Printed by Munroe & Francis, 1807-1808.
Description
9 v. ; 17 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Note
An edition offered by subscription either in 9 volumes or in 18 numbered parts.
The second Boston edition, probably edited by David Francis. There were two other editions in 1802-1804, without the Poems, and 1810-1812. (Jaggard p. 508). W.W. Clapp in his record of the Boston Stage, 1853, says "The notes were rewritten and condensed by Mr. Munroe from an English edition and subsequently adapted by several publishers."
Each volume with half-titles and engraved title pages. Plays with divisional titles bearing "Munroe & Francis' edition" on versos.
Volume title pages dated 1807.
Individual title page in v. 9 reads: A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters : to which is added an essay on the faults of Shakespeare / by W. Richardson. Boston : Printed by Munroe, Francis, & Parker, Shakspeare bookstore, no. 4, cornhill, 1808.
Subscription list following Richardson's essays in v. 9.
The second Boston edition, probably edited by David Francis. There were two other editions in 1802-1804, without the Poems, and 1810-1812. (Jaggard p. 508). W.W. Clapp in his record of the Boston Stage, 1853, says "The notes were rewritten and condensed by Mr. Munroe from an English edition and subsequently adapted by several publishers."
Each volume with half-titles and engraved title pages. Plays with divisional titles bearing "Munroe & Francis' edition" on versos.
Volume title pages dated 1807.
Individual title page in v. 9 reads: A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters : to which is added an essay on the faults of Shakespeare / by W. Richardson. Boston : Printed by Munroe, Francis, & Parker, Shakspeare bookstore, no. 4, cornhill, 1808.
Subscription list following Richardson's essays in v. 9.
Contents
v. 1. Some account of the life by Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors
v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth
v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V
v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III
v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline
v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
v. 9. Poems of Shakespeare. Richardson's essays on his principal dramatick characters.
v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth
v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V
v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III
v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline
v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
v. 9. Poems of Shakespeare. Richardson's essays on his principal dramatick characters.
Condition
copy 2 v.1-2,5-9
copy 3 v.7
copy 3 v.7
Cited/described in
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 511
Shaw and Shoemaker, 13572
Shaw and Shoemaker, 13572
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Call number
PR2752 1807-1808 copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Lacking subscription list in v. 9. Some pencil manuscript notes. Inscription: Cha. Lowell "to his son R.T.S. Lowell, 1830." Armorial bookplate (motto: Occasionem cognosce) of Robert Traill Spence Lowell. Autograph: Percy Lowell (v. 3). Bound in marbled leather.
Folger accession
cs711
Call number
PR2752 1807-1808 copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Manuscript pencil notes in v. 6. Half of final leaf of Cymbeline torn off v. 7. Autograph: Roberts. Marbled calf binding with red and black leather spine labels and marbled endpapers; v. 7 rebound.
Folger accession
cs165
Call number
PR2752 1807-1808 copy 4 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking v. 9; vols. 1-8 bound in 4. Autograph: Hersey. Half leather binding with "James Hearsey" stamped on spines; ticket: J. Marshall, bookseller, stationer, and bookman, Manchester, N.H.
Folger accession
cs786
Call number
PR2752 1807-1808 copy 5 v. 4 fragment Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: King Henry IV, part 1 only; lacking p. 87. Disbound.
Folger accession
cs484