The dramatick works of William Shakespeare : printed complete, with Dr. Samuel Johnson's preface and notes : to which is prefixed the life of the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Francis, David, 1779-1853.

Munroe, Edmund, active 1802.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.

Books in Parts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Plays

Language:

English

Genre:

Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Kennebec Natural History and Antiquarian Society (bookplate)

Cony Female Academy (Augusta, Me.) (bookplate)

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846 (inscription)

Physical Description:

8 volumes in 16 parts ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Wrapper title: Shakespeare's plays : with Dr. Johnson's notes

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed by and for Munroe & Francis, 1802-1804.

Contents:

v. 1. Some account of the life and writings of William Shakespeare / N. Rowe ; Dr. Johnson's preface ; Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors

v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Midsummer night's dream ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost

v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night, or, What you will ; The winter's tale ; Macbeth

v. 4. King John ; Richard II ; Henry IV, part 1 ; Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V

v. 5. Henry VI, part 1 ; Henry VI, part 2 ; Henry VI, part 3 ; Richard III

v. 6. Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra

v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline

v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.

Notes:

"The first Boston edition, probably edited by David Francis, one of its printer-publishers ... It passed through two subsequent editions (see 1807 and 1810-1812). In the Lenox Library set of the third edition, at New York, is this interesting manuscript entry by D. Francis the publisher: 'In 1802 Munroe and Francis issued proposals for publishing an edition of [Shakespeare] in serial numbers, two plays to a volume, at fifty cents per number, complete in 16 numbers ...'"--Jaggard.

Parts issued in paper wrappers printed with publisher's prospectus; each play paged separately.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has no. 8 only; title leaf wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has bookplate of "Kennebec Natural History and Antiquarian Society" on inside front wrapper and bookplate of "Library of the Cony Female Academy in Augusta" on verso of first leaf.

Cited in:

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibl., p. 508-509

Shaw & Shoemaker, 3063

Shaw & Shoemaker, 5039

Shaw & Shoemaker, 7254

OCLC:

259243580