The plays of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Richard Clay (Printer), John Gilbert (Illustrator), Edward William Robinson (Illustrator), John Henry Robinson (Engraver), Howard Staunton (Editor), Dalziel Brothers (Engraver), G. Routledge & Co (Publisher), National Art Library (Great Britain). Forster Collection, National Art Library (Great Britain). Harrod Collection, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1858-1860
George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street, London, 1858-1860
Bindings
3 volumes ([1], lxviii, 744, [3] pages including [13] plates; [6], 770, [4] pages including [13] plates; [6], 815, [3] pages including [11] plates) : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm
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v. 1. Some account of the life of Shakespeare. Two gentlemen of Verona ; Love's labour's lost ; Comedy of errors ; Romeo and Juliet ; Taming of the shrew ; King John ; Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. All's well that ends well ; Henry V ; As you like it ; Pericles ; Twelfth night ; King Henry VI ; Timon of Athens ; King Richard III ; Measure for measure ; King Henry VIII ; Cymbeline
v. 3. Tempest ; King Lear ; Coriolanus ; Winter's tale ; Troilus and Cressida ; Hamlet ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Titus Andronicus ; Othello ; Poems
Copy [B] part of the Harrod Collection
Copy [B]: half-bound in green morocco leather over green morocco grain cloth; front, back and spine gilt-stamped. Marble-edged. Yellow end papers
Copy [C] donated by John Forster
Engr. plate and cuts
Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare engraved by H. Robinson after a drawing by E.W. Robinson, "made expressly for this edition from the bust in the Church at Statford upon Avon."
V. 2 bear imprint: London [etc.] : Routledge, Warne & Routledge