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The works of William Shakespeare : the plays edition from the folio of MDCXXIII, with various readings from all the editions and all the commentators, notes, introductory remarks, a historical sketch of the text, an account of the rise and progress of the English drama, a memoir of the poet, and an essay upon the genius / by Richard Grant White.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection 90 1857W v.1 v.2 v.3 v.4 v.5 v.6 v.7 v.8 v.9 v.10 v.11 v.12
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection 90 1857W copy 2 v.1 v.2 v.3 v.4 v.5 v.6 v.7 v.8 v.9 v.10 v.11 v.12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 12 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1857-66.
- Notes:
- Vol. 1, 1866; v. 2-12, 1857-61.
- "This edition contains many of Collier's manuscript emendations"--Camb. hist. of Eng. lit., v. 5, p. 474.
- Copy 1: 90/1857W. The small-paper ed. (paper height, 19.5 cm.)
- Copy 2: C90/1857W. The large-paper ed. (paper height, 22 cm.). "Of the fifty copies done on large paper, one is at Boston"--Jaggard, p. 533. Vol. I only of Furness copy has "Fifty copies printed."
- "Steeves denies that White edited an earlier edition as Jaggard claims (see note on 'Charles Knight' [1854-6]), as well as the myth maintained by Bohn, Jaggard, Saintsbury, Neilson, and Thorndike, etc., that there were two editions, 1857-60 and 1859-65"--Shakespeare Variorum handbook, p. 77.
- OCLC:
- 2604178
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