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The works of William Shakespeare : the plays edited from the folio of MDCXXIII, with various readings from all the editions and all the commentators, notes, introductory remarks, a historical sketch of the text, an account of the rise and progress of the English drama, a memoir of the poet, and an essay upon his genius / by Richard Grant White.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885.; Smith, Henry Wright, 1828- printmaker.; Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.; Little, Brown and Company, publisher.; John Wilson and Son, printer.
1881
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Title
The works of William Shakespeare : the plays edited from the folio of MDCXXIII, with various readings from all the editions and all the commentators, notes, introductory remarks, a historical sketch of the text, an account of the rise and progress of the English drama, a memoir of the poet, and an essay upon his genius / by Richard Grant White.
Uniform title
Works. 1881. Little, Brown & Co.
Created/published
Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1881 (Cambridge : University Press : John Wilson & Son)
Description
12 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 19 cm
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885.
Smith, Henry Wright, 1828- printmaker.
Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.
Little, Brown and Company, publisher.
John Wilson and Son, printer.
Note
Frontispiece portrait (v.1) engraved by H. Wright Smith.

"This edition contains many of Collier's manuscript emendations."--Camb. hist. of Eng. lit., v. 5, p. 474.

With a facsimile of the First Folio title-page, with the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare.
Contents
v. 1. Life. Essays. Poems
v. 2. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor
v. 3. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost
v. 4. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew
v. 5. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Winter's tale
v. 6. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV
v. 7. Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1-2
v. 8. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth
v. 11. Hamlet ; King Lear ; Othello
v. 12. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
United States -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.

Call number
PR2752 1881e copy 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Stamp: Edward Dowden Library. Publisher's cloth binding.
Folger accession
cs592
Call number
PR2752 1881e copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: v.1 only. Publisher's cloth binding.
Folger accession
cs161