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Shakespeare's plays : with his life : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts, executed by H.W. Hewet, after designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and others / edited by Gulian C. Verplanck, with critical introductions, notes, etc., original and selected.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection PR2753 .V4 1847 copy 2 no.39/40
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection PR2753 .V4 1847 no.39-54, 59-60, 67-70
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Standardized Title:
- Plays
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes in parts : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Illustrated Shakespeare
- Wrapper title: Harper's illuminated and illustrated Shakespeare
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Bros., 1847 [that is, 1844-1847]
- Notes:
- Each volume has added illustrated t.p. which reads: The illustrated Shakespeare ...
- "Now publishing in double numbers ... to be completed in about 100 numbers ... forming about 1600 pages, 8vo."--Publisher's advertisement.
- The first American illustrated Shakespeare. Complete sets of this, the only printing, are scarce due to destruction of the plates in Harper's 1853 fire. Cf. Westfall.
- The text is based on Collier's; most of the illustrations are taken from Knight's pictorial edition. Cf. Jaggard.
- Parts issued in illustrated paper wrappers printed in red and black. Most front wrappers have title: Harper's illuminated and illustrated Shakespeare. Back wrappers are printed with publisher's advertisement. Though numbered, the parts were not intended to be bound in numerical order and each play has separate pagination.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.
- Penn Libraries copy 1 imperfect: RBC has nos. 39-54, 59-60, 67-70 only; title leaves wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy 2 imperfect: RBC has no. 39/40 (double number) only; title leaves wanting.
- Cited in:
- Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibl., p. 525
- PMLA XXII, p. 661-666
- Westfall, A. van R. Amer. Shakespeare criticism, p. [128]-136
- OCLC:
- 12906156
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