Shakspeare. "When I said I would die a bachelor, (cries Benedick,) I did not think I should live till I were married." The present editor of Shakspeare may urge a kindred apology in defence of an opinion hazarded in his prefatory advertisement; for when he declared his disbelief in the existence of a genuine likeness of our great dramatick writer, he most certainly did not suppose any portrait of that description could have occurred, and much less that he himself should have been instrumental in producing it. ... [electronic resource].

[London?] : [s.n.], [1794]

[4]p. ; 8vo.

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Signed and dated on verso of the first leaf: G. S. Nov. 10, 1794.

G. S. = George Steevens.

Title from drop-head title and opening lines of text.

The final leaf contains a direction on where to place the first leaf: "A leaf to be inserted immediately after the Advertisement prefixed to the edition of Shakspeare, 1793, in 15 vols. 8vo", i.e. in the fine paper copies of 'The plays of William Shakspeare', London, 1793.

On the portraits of William Shakespeare.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

'The plays', London, 1793, at t33036

English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T221963

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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