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The works of William Shakespeare / edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke ; in four volumes.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877.; Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898.; Bell, Robert Charles, 1806-1872, printmaker.; De Brisay, H. L. D. (Henry Lestock Delacour), 1860- former owner.; Weekes, C. H., active 1874-1878, associated name.; Bickers & Son, publisher.; James Ballantyne and Co., printer.
1876
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Title
The works of William Shakespeare / edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke ; in four volumes.
Uniform title
Works. 1876. Bicker's & Son
Created/published
London : Bickers & Son, 1876 (Edinburgh and London : Printed by Ballantyne and Company)
Description
4 v. : port. ; 23 cm
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877.
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898.
Bell, Robert Charles, 1806-1872, printmaker.
De Brisay, H. L. D. (Henry Lestock Delacour), 1860- former owner.
Weekes, C. H., active 1874-1878, associated name.
Bickers & Son, publisher.
James Ballantyne and Co., printer.
Note
Frontispiece portrait engraved by R.C. Bell.

Title page printed in red and black.
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like ; Taming of the shrew
v. 2. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Winter's tale ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1-2
v. 3. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus ; Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar
v. 4. Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear ; Othello ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; Poems.
Condition
v.1,3-4
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

Call number
PR2752 1876f Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Inscription: To H.L.D. de Brisay, from C.H. Weekes, in affectionate remembrance of May 1874 to April 1878, and of his help as Monitor at Charterhouse. Tree calf binding, with gold armorial stamp (with motto: Deo dante dedi); marbled endpapers and edges.
Folger accession
9/19/38