Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems / edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.

Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems / edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.

Works. 1900. Whittaker and Co.

New edition.

London : Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane, [between 1858 and 1900?] ([London] : Gilbert and Rivington, printers, St. John's Square, London)

6 v. ; 24 cm

Same setting of type as the edition first issued by Whittaker and Co. in 1842-1844 with title "The works of William Shakespeare"; almost identical to Whittaker and Co.'s 2nd edition, dated 1858 (Folger card catalog).

Frontispiece portrait lettered: Engraved by H. Cook.

v. 1. History of the English drama and stage to the time of Shakespeare. Life of William Shakespeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors
v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night
v. 3. Winter's tale ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1
v. 4. King Henry VI, part 2-3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus
v. 5. Titus Andronicus ; Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear
v. 6. Othello ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Lover's complaint ; Passionate pilgrim ; Phoenix and the turtle.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

PR2755.C7 G3 Sh.Col.

Old water damage, treated by Conservation. John Oliver Hobbes [pseudonym of Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie] copy with manuscript notes. A loose slip of paper with notes laid in. Gatherings of some plays unopened. In green publisher's cloth binding with gold spine titling and stamped image of Shakespeare on cover.

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