Select plays of William Shakspeare : in six volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes / by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens ; revised and augmented by Isaac Reed, Esq.

Select plays of William Shakspeare : in six volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes / by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens ; revised and augmented by Isaac Reed, Esq.

Plays. Selections. 1820

Philadelphia : Printed for the Proprietors, by G.L. Austin, 1820.

6 v. ; 19 cm (12mo)

Edited by Joseph Dennie.

A six-volume collection of remainders of the Select plays of William Shakspeare in seventeen volumes, published by C. and A. Conrad & Co., 1809.

The 6-vol. collection appears to consist of the 1809 vols. 4-6, 11-13, with newly printed title pages. Note: printer information from the 1809 edition regarding T.S. Manning on colophons.

"Containing Love's labour's lost ; Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Romeo and Juliet ; Coriolanus ; Antony and Cleopatra" (vol. 1 title page).

v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors
v. 5. Troilus and Cressida ; Romeo and Juliet. Romeus and Juliet.

Great Britain -- England.

PR2752 1820c Sh.Col.

Imperfect: v. 3 and 5 only. Autograph torn from top of v. 3 title page. Marbled sheep binding with filleting and leather spine label. Gift of Henry N. Paul.

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