The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in six volumes : Adorn'd with cuts / Revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author / By N. Rowe, esq
- Bib ID:
- 1355760
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Uniform Title:
- Works. 1709
- Description:
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- London : printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709-10
- 6 v. : fronts., plates ; 20 cm. (8vo) + vol. 7.
- Full contents:
- Contents.- v. 3. King John. King Richard II. Henry IV. Part I. Henry IV. Part II. King Henry V. King Henry VI. Part 1. King Henry VI. Part II.
- Notes:
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- Includes (in vol. 6) several plays wrongly attributed to Shakespeare, i.e. The London prodigal, The life and death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, The history of Sir John Oldcastle, The puritan, or The widow of Watling Street, A Yorkshire tragedy, and The tragedy of Locrine.
- The above title is prefixed to v.1. only; v.2-6 have title: The works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the Second [etc.] (The latter title appears also in v.1. as added t.p.) Each play has special t.p.
- The frontispiece of each volume is a portrait of Shakespeare engraved by M:V. dr. Gucht.
- The first edition after the four folios; the text based upon the fourth folio.
- Errors in paging: p. 104 misprinted 16: p. 225, 125; p. 228, 128; p. 228, 229; p. 461, 361.
- C & C 6936, 6937.
- Volume the Seventh. Containing, Venus & Adonis, Tarquin & Lucrece and his Miscellany poems. With critical remarks on his plays, &c. to which is prefix'd an essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England [by C. Gildon] London: printed for E. Curll, and E. Sanger, 1710. "One of the piratical productions of Edmund Curll."--Notes and queries, 2nd ser., v. 12, p. 349.
- Collation of vol. 7: [16], lxxii, 472, [4] p. front. ; 20 cm. (8vo). Dedication signed: S.N. Special title-pages of "Venus and Adonis" and "Tarquin and Lucrece" dated 1709.
- C & C 3990.
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1747
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- Publication date:
- 1710
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