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 ; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI.; an historical account of the English stage ; and notes / by Edmond Malone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Steevens, George, 1736-1800.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

10 volumes in 11, plates (1 folded) : illustrations (v. 1, 10), facsimiles, portraits ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by H. Baldwin for J. Rivington and Sons, 1790.

Contents:

Vol. 1, pt. 1. Prolegomena: Preface. Preface / Johnson. Advertisement / Steevens. Catalogue of the earliest translations from the Greek and Roman classicks / Steevens. Preface / Pope. Dedication / Heminge and Condell to the folio, 1623. Preface / the same. Rowe's life of Shakspeare, augmented by Malone. Anecdotes of Shakspeare, from Oldys's mss. &c. Baptisms [etc.] of the Shakspeare family extracted from the registers of Stratford-upon-Avon / Malone. Shakspeare's coat of arms. Shakspeare's will. Shakspeare's mortgage. Ancient and modern commendatory verses on Shakspeare. Editions of Shakspeare's plays. Editions of his Poems. Dramatick pieces on which plays were formed by Shakspeare. List of plays altered from Shakspeare. Detached pieces of criticism on Shakspeare, his editors, &c. Entries [of Shakspeare's plays and poems] in the Stationer's registers, extracted by Steevens. Essay on the order of time in which the plays were written. Shakspeare, Ford and Jonson ; v. 1, pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlement of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. A midsummer night's dream

v. 3. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Pericles, prince of Tyre

v. 4. Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John

v. 5. Richard II. Henry IV, part first and second. Henry V

v. 6. Henry VI, part first, second, and third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. Richard III

v. 7. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus. Julius Cæsar. 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. Appendix. Glossarial index.

Notes:

The above title occurs only in v. 1, pt. 1; v. 1, pt. 2-v. 10 have only: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare.

Lettered on cover: 1-11.

Local Notes:

24 v. as follows: I, 1 (1); I, 1 (2); I, 2 (1); I, 2 (2); II, 1, 2; III, 1, 2; IV-VIII, 1, 2; IX, X, 1-3.

These volumes were completely disbound by AMS Press of New York in order to make a reprint. The gatherings were destroyed. In order to minimize the bulging of the spine resulting from strip-binding Kurt Gaebel and Son divided the existing volumes into 24.

OCLC:

9210396