The family Shakspeare : in ten volumes : in which nothing is added to the original text : but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family
Print Book, English, 1820
The second edition View all formats and editions
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, London, 1820
10 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 18 cm (12mo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Either stereotyped from the same setting of type as the 1818 Family Shakspeare, or remainder sheets of that edition, except Measure for measure, which is re-edited and much altered and contains cancels. All preliminaries newly printed, with a preface dated 1820 (Folger card catalog)
Printer's information from colophon; "London" follows address
Publisher's printed spine labels read "Bowdler's family Shakspeare."