The plays of William Shakespeare : in ten volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope, Theobald, William Warburton, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, Charles Bathurst (Bookseller), George Vertue (Printmaker)
Print Book, English, MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Printed for C. Bathurst; J. Beecroft; W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; J. Hinton; L. Davis; Hawes, Clarke, and Collins; R. Horsfield; W. Johnston; W. Owen; T. Caslon; E. Johnson; S. Crowder; B. White; T. Longman; B. Law; E. and C. Dilly; C. Corbett; W. Griffin; T. Cadell; W. Woodfall; G. Keith; T. Lowndes; T. Davies; J. Robson; T. Becket; F. Newbery; G. Robinson; T. Payne; J. Williams; M. Hingeston; and J. Ridley, London, MDCCLXXIII [1773]
10 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 21 cm (8vo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth
v. 5. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV
v. 6. King Henry V ; King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus
v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus
v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
"This edition, in which were united ... Dr. Johnson with ... George Steevens, superseded all previous editions and became the standard for future editors and publishers"--Lowndes (Jaggard, p. 504)
Volume 1 with a general title page. Each volume with a volume title page; volumes 2-10 with divisional half-titles; each play with a divisional play half-title
Volume 1 with the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, and Warburton, and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe. Volume 8 with two appendices, the second by Richard Farmer
Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit