Detail View: LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection: [Plays. 1709] The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in nine volumes : adorn'd with cuts / revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq.
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Digital Image File Name:
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38754
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Source Call Number:
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PR2752 1709b Copy 1 v.1 Sh.Col.
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Source Creator:
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Source Title:
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[Plays. 1709] The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in nine volumes : adorn'd with cuts / revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq.
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Source Created or Published:
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1709
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Physical Description:
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image opposite title page, a shipwreck
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Uniform Title (Hamnet):
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Plays. 1709
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Title (Hamnet):
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The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in nine volumes : adorn'd with cuts. revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq.
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Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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London :
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Publisher (Hamnet):
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Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane,
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Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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MDCCIX [1709]
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Physical Description (Hamnet):
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9 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 24 cm (8vo)
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Biography.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Leeds, Duke of, former owner.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725, printmaker.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Numerous errors in pagination.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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General t.p. in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has special t.p.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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This is another issue of the large paper, 6-v. set; according to Ford, there are probably no more than half a dozen copies issued in 9 v.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Plates signed: M. Vder. Gucht sculp.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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The plays only.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Not in ESTC (2009 Oct 9)
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Notes (Hamnet):
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The first edition published after the four folios; the text is based on the fourth folio.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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(from t.p.'s) v.1. The tempest -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Measure for measure -- v. 2. The comedy of errors -- Much ado about nothing -- Love's labour's lost -- v. 2. A midsummer-night's dream -- Merchant of Venice -- v. 3. As you like it -- Taming of the shrew -- All's well that ends well -- Twelfth-night, or, What you will -- The winter's tale -- v. 4. King John -- King Richard II -- Henry IV, part I -- Henry IV, part II -- King Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI, part I -- King Henry VI, part II -- King Henry VI, part III -- Richard III -- King Henry VIII -- v. 6. Troilus and Cressida -- Coriolanus -- Titus Andronicus -- Romeo and Juliet -- v. 7. Timon of Athens -- Julius Caesar -- Macbeth -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark -- v. 8. King Lear -- Othello, Moor of Venice -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Cymbeline -- v. 9. Pericles, Prince of Tyre -- London prodigal -- Thomas Lord Cromwell -- Sir John Oldcastle -- The puritan -- A Yorkshire tragedy -- Locrine.
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Citations (Hamnet):
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Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, p. 10-11
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Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
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Armorial bookplate (motto: Pax in bello): Leeds [i.e., belonging to one of the Dukes of Leeds, individual undetermined]. Bound in calf with gold filleting and corner ornaments; marbled paper end-leaves.
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Call Number (Hamnet):
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PR2752 1709b Copy 1 Sh.Col.
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