The works of Shakespear : in six volumes : adorned with sculptures
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Thomas Hanmer (Editor), Theobald, Alexander Pope, Hubert François Gravelot (Engraver), Francis Hayman (Artist), Edward Capell, Thomas Hawkins (Editor), Oxford University Press (Printer)
Print Book, English, MDCCLXX-MDCCLXXI. [1770-1771]
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Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, MDCCLXX-MDCCLXXI. [1770-1771]
Drama 18th Century
6 volumes : illustrations, portraits (engravings) ; 33 cm (4to)
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v. 1. The tempest ; A midsummer-night's dream ; The two gentlemen of Verona ; The merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; The comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. The merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost ; As you like it ; The taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; The winter's tale
v. 3. King Lear ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V
v. 4. King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 5. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth
v. 6. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer, revised by Thomas Hawkins
Contains the plays only
With a general title page dated 1771. Volume title pages read: The works of Mr. William Shakespear, and are dated 1770. Each play with a divisional title page
Contains the Chandos portrait, Stratford bust (as altered for Pope's edition) and the Westminster monument, also an engraving to each play, by H. Gravelot after F. Hayman
With the prefaces of Hanmer and Pope, Some account of the life, &c. by Rowe, Ben Johnson's poem, and An epistle addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his edition of Shakespear's works, by William Collins in v. 1. Various readings of Theobald and Capel in all volumes. Glossary with errata in v. 6