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Dramatic works of Shakespeare : the text of the first edition.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Dawson, Alfred, printmaker.; Gray, Henry Lee, d. not before 1885, former owner.; Chatto & Windus (Firm), publisher.
1885
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Title
Dramatic works of Shakespeare : the text of the first edition.
Uniform title
Plays. 1885. Chatto & Windus
Created/published
London : Chatto & Windus, 1885.
Description
8 v. : ill., port. ; 21 cm
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Dawson, Alfred, printmaker.
Gray, Henry Lee, d. not before 1885, former owner.
Chatto & Windus (Firm), publisher.
Note
Frontispiece portrait lettered: A. Dawson, photo. sc.

Limited edition of 250 numbered copies.
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew
v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Winter's tale ; King John ; King Richard II
v. 4. King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1
v. 5. King Henry VI, part 2-3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 6. Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus ; Romeo and Juliet
v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet
v. 8. King Lear ; Othello ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline.
Condition
v.1-8
Cited/described in
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 549
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR2752 1885c Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Copy no. 92. Bookplate: Henry Lee Gray. Publisher's cloth binding.
Folger accession
cs816