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PR2752 1709c copy 1 v.5 Sh.Col.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

[Plays. 1709] The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in six volumes ; adorn���d with cuts / revis���d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq.

Julius Caesar

[1709]

plate facing leaf L6 recto (page 2227)

FSL collection

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Plays. 1709

The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in six volumes ; adorn'd with cuts / revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq.

London :

Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane,

MDCCIX [1709]

6 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm (8vo)

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120847 - Biography.

Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.

Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller.

Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725, printmaker.

Boitard, François, approximately 1670-approximately 1715, printmaker.

Kirkall, Elisha, 1682?-1742, illustrator.

Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.

Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.

Preston, Nathaniel, active 18th century, signer.

Preston, W., active 18th century, signer.

Oswald, Richard Alexander, signer.

Laing, S., d. not before 1709, former owner.

Kelly, Elizabeth, active 18th century, signer.

Webb, Ann, active 18th century, signer.

There were two issues of the 1709 works printed on ordinary paper in 6 volumes. This is the second, possibly surreptitious, issue, a line-for-line reprint of the first, where v. 1, leaf A1, the armorial headpiece is lacking and signature A is under the 'o' of "Goodness"; v. 6, sig. A4 is under "wher." See Ford p. 10-11 for a full description of differences between the two issues.

Contains the plays only.

Vol. 1. Signatures: pi² A⁴ a-b⁸ c⁴ B-2G⁸. Pagination: [12], XL, 463, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates -- v. 2. Signatures: [A]1 B-2K⁸. Pagination: [5], 468-975, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates -- v. 3. Signatures: [A]1 B-2N⁸. Pagination: [5], 980-1535, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates. -- v 4. Signatures: [A]1 B-2L⁸ M⁴. Pagination: [5], 1540-2072 p., [6] leaves of plates -- v. 5. Signatures: [A]1 B-2O⁸. Pagination: [5], 2076-2647, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates -- v. 6. Signatures: A⁸ (-A1) B-2N⁸. Pagination: [5], 2656-3324 p., [9] leaves of plates.

With a general title page in v. 1; each volume with a volume title page; each play with an individual play title page with the imprint: Printed in the year 1709.

Engraved portrait frontispiece plate lettered: M. Vdr. Gucht sculp. (v. 1). Engravings for plays lettered for pagination, attributed to artist Boitard and engraver Kirkall (see H.A. Hammelmann, Shakespeare's first illustrators, Apollo, supplement "notes on British art" p. 1-4, August 1968).

Paged continuously; numerous errors in paging.

Not in Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography.

v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale -- v. 3. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV. Part 1 ; King Henry IV. Part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI. Part 1 ; King Henry VI. Part 2 -- v. 4. King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 5. Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear ; Othello -- v. 6. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; London prodigal ; Thomas, Lord Cromwell ; Sir John Oldcastle ; Puritan ; Yorkshire tragedy ; Locrine.

copy 1 v. 1-6 conserved 20110808 deacidified CMS pda DFo

copy 1 v. 1-3 housed 20110808 CMS pda DFo

copy 2 v. 4 housed 20110809 CMS pda DFo

copy 3 v. 6 housed 20110809 CMS pda DFo

copy 1 Upgraded 2015-11 EEW 1 link Luna local DFo

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T138297

Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, p. 11-12

Plate for Twelfth Night mis-bound with Taming of the Shrew at p. 719. Some manuscript marking in ink on volume title page v. 1; some pencil markings in v. 4; pencil sketch v.6. Cut into at head of leaves resulting in slight loss of text (v. 1); some worming (v. 2). This copy used as exemplar of 2nd issue description and collation in Ford. Autographs: Ex Libris Nath.l Preston (v. 3, 5); W. Preston, Swainstown, Duns[hawkton?] (v. 5). In Cambridge-style calf binding.

PR2752 1709c copy 1 Sh.Col.