The plays of Shakespeare
[electronic resource] :
in nine volumes.
Description
- Related Names
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Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834, artist.
Fox, Augustus, printmaker.
Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807.
Steevens, George, 1736-1800.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Durst, Seymour B., 1913-1995, former owner.
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1825
- Note
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Avery Classics copy: Blind stamp on free front endpaper of v. 1 "G. Willis bookseller, 42 Charing Cross".
Avery Classics copy: Missing vol. 7.
Avery Classics copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Avery Classics copy: Original maroon leather binding, stamped in blind and gold; glazed yellow endpapers; all edges gilt.
Also issued by the publisher in XXXVIII parts in original printed wrappers with continuous pagination, cataloged separately (not mentioned by Keynes). Copies bound in 9 volumes not in one of those two bindings may have been individual parts collected and bound by a former owner. In the absence of other information, copies bound as 9 volumes with the general and volume title pages are considered to have been issued as a set by the publisher.
For the issue with engravings: each play accompanied by an engraving; frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare in v. 1 engraved by Augustus Fox from a picture painted by T. Stothard from the rare print by Droeshout, plus 37 engraved by T. Stothard.
This collected set in 9 volumes issued "1) in red cloth, paper labels, at 2 lbs. 17s, or 2) in morocco at, 4 lbs. 7s. Also issued without the engravings."--Keynes.
Printer's name from colophon, v. 9.
From the text of Johnson, Steevens, & Reed.
- Physical Description
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9 v. :
ill., port. ;
93 mm (48mo?)
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