The plays : of William Shakspeare. Volume the first; containing Life...Preface..Farmer's Essay...Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--18th century.

English drama.

Verse drama, English--Early works to 1800.

Verse drama, English.

Genre:

Plays.

Physical Description:

12v.,plates : portrait ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; E. Harding, Pall-Mall; and J. Wright, Piccadilly, 1800.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Each play, published separately between 1798 and 1799, with separate titlepage headed 'Harding's edition', pagination and register; the plays being collected in twelve volumes, each volume with a collective titlepage dated 1800.

The separate titlepages for 1798 and part of 1799 bear the imprint: published by E. Harding; J. Wright; G. Sael; and Vernor and Hood; and the separate titlepages for the later part of 1799 bear the imprint: printed by T. Bensley. Published by E. Harding; J. Wright; G. Sael; and Vernor and Hood.

A prospectus, 'Harding's Shakespeare, with one hundred and eighty engravings, .. ', was issued in [1798].

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T2914.

Access Restriction:

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