BEIN Zm Sh13 Copy 2: With frontispieces (portraits) and 37 engraved plates. and v. 1. The tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Measure for measure ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice -- v. 3. As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale -- v. 4. Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, pt. I -- v. 5. King Henry IV, pt. II ; King Henry V ; King Henry VI, pt. I-II -- v. 6. King Henry VI, pt. III ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Cæsar ; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 8. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles, prince of Tyre ; King Lear -- v. 9. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet, prince of Denmark ; Othello, the moor of Venice ; Glossary.
The second of two editions printed in London in 1765. Woodfall is listed as the second bookseller in the imprint for v. 1-2; Corbet is listed as the second bookseller in the imprint for v. 3-8; Longman does not appear in the imprint for v. 3-8; Johnson's preface is paginated continuously with other prefatory matter: [v]-clv [i.e. clxxv]; half titles present in all volumes; no cancelled leaves. and Variant with numerous differences in press figures; cf. Fleeman and Eddy. Vol. 8 extra-illustrated with 5 original watercolors, newspaper clipping and 1773 Edwards plate. Autograph in vol. 1: E. Bowright.
Publisher:
Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, Clark and Collins, T. Longman, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, C. Corbet, T. Lownds, and the executors of B. Dodd,
Vol. 1 only; armorial bookplate "The Count Batthyany" pasted on top of another bookplate; bookplate: "From the library of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps ... which was bequeathed to his nephew and executor, Erenst E. Baker, F.S.A., January, 1889;" ms. notes of J.O. Halliwell-Phillips.
Publisher:
Printed for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, J.F. and C. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis ... [and 28 others in London],
Subject (Name):
Baker, Ernest Edward--Bookplate, Batthyány, Lajos, gróf, 1806-1849--Bookplate, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O.--(James Orchard),--1820-1889--Ms. notes, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Steevens, George, 1736-1800