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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added, an essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson [sic]; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI; an historical account of the English stage; and notes

Print Book, English, MDCCXC [1790]
Printed by H. Baldwin for J. Rivington and Sons; L. Davis; B. White and Son; T. Longman; B. Law; H.S. Woodfall; C. Dilly; J. Robson; J. Johnson; T. Vernor; G., G., J., and J. Robinson; T. Cadell; J. Murray; R. Baldwin; H.L. Gardner; J. Sewell; J. Nichols; J. Bew; T. Payne, Jun.; S. Hayes; R. Faulder; W. Lowndes; G. and T. Wilkie; Scatcherd and Whitaker; T. and J. Egerton; C. Stalker; J. Barker; J. Edwards; Ogilvie and Speare; J. Cuthell; J. Lackington; and E. Newbery, London, MDCCXC [1790]
10 v. in 11 : ill., port. (engravings, woodcuts) ; 20 cm (8vo)
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v. 1 pt. 2. 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 ; Midsummer-night's dream
v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Pericles
v. 4. Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III
v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear
v. 9. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
v. 10. Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate Pilgrim ; Lover's complaint ; Titus Andronicus ; Romeus and Juliet
Each volume with vol. half-titles and dated vol. title pages; each play with a divisional title page
Illustrations, dated between 1786-1789, variously lettered by engravers: Charles Knight; Thos. Holloway; A. Birrell; J. Keyse Sherwin; and W. Sharp. And by artists: Ozias Humphry; I. Jordan; and G. Steevens. Morris dancers folded plate in v. 5
Prefaces of Johnson and Pope; and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe in v. 1 pt. 1; History of the English Stage, emendations and additions, and directions to the binder in v. 1 pt. 2. Appendix and glossarial index in v. 10