As you like it -- Antony and Cleopatra -- The Comedy of errors -- Venus and Adonis -- Hamlet -- Julius Caesar -- King Henry IV, parts I and II -- King Henry V -- King Henry VI, parts I, II and III -- King Henry VIII -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Measure for measure -- Merchant of Venice -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Midsummer-night's dream -- Much ado about nothing -- Othello -- Romeo and Juliet -- Taming of the shrew -- The tempest -- Twelfth night., Comedy of errors and Venus and Adonis are bound in one volume (p. 1-147 and [149]-252, respectively), each with a separate title page., Issued in black leather box. Individual volumes are bound in different colored leather. Each volume includes a portrait of Shakespeare., Published ca. 1895. Cf. Studies in bibliography, v. 58, p. 220., and Title from box; 24 v. in leather box, as originally issued. From the Geraldine Page papers.
Contains the Chandos portrait, views of the Westminster abbey monument and Stratford bust (the latter altered as in Pope's edition), and an engraving to each play, all by Gravelot after Hayman., Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer, who followed Pope's edition of 1723-25., The above title is prefixed to v. 1 only; v. 2-6 have title: The works of Mr. William Shakespear...1743[-44]., and V.1. Preface. Mr. Pope's preface. Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare, by N. Rowe. Comedies:: The tempest. A midsummer night's dream. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing.