The plays of William Shakspeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's various readings : a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators : a history of the stage, and a Life of Shakspeare / by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.

The plays of William Shakspeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's various readings : a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators : a history of the stage, and a Life of Shakspeare / by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.

Plays. 1823. F., C., and J. Rivington

A new edition, in eight volumes.

London : Printed for F., C., and J. Rivington, T. Egerton, J. Cuthell, J. Scatcherd, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, J. and W.T. Clarke, J. Booker, J. Booth, J. Richardson, J.M. Richardson, R.H. Evans, J. Mawman, R. Scholey, W. Earle, J. Bohn, C. Brown, R. Pheney, Baldwin and Co., Newman and Co., Ogle and Co., T. Tegg, T. Hamilton, W. Wood, J. Sheldon, Whitmore and Fenn, Harding and Co., E. Edwards, W. Mason, G. Mackie, J.H. Bohte, T. Wilkie, G. and W.B. Whittaker, Kingsbury and Co., Simpkin and Co., and R. Saunders; also for Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; Wilson and Sons, York; for Stirling and Slade, A. Black, P. Brown, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh, 1823 ( London : Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square)

8 v. : ill., port. ; 22 cm (8vo)

Printer from colophon.

With an errata leaf in v. 2.

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

Great Britain -- England -- London.
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
Great Britain -- England -- York.
Great Britain db England -- Cambridge.

PR2752 1823a copy 1 Sh.Col.

Errata tipped in as slip in v. 2 at end of volume. Title page of v. 6 shows offset from the colophon. Evidence of removed bookplates. In polished calf boards, rebacked with gold tooling and black and red leather labels; edges spreckled red.

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PR2752 1823a copy 2 Sh.Col.

Bound in polished calf with black leather spine labels; marbled endpapers and edges.

No case or acc. number present

PR2752 1823a copy 3 Sh.Col.

Armorial bookplate (Motto: Auspice numine eadem sunt omnia semper): Ex Libris Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate. Half-bound in green calf decorated spine, with marbled paper boards, endpapers, and edges.

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