1778 The Plays of William Shakespeare In Ten Volumes With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators To Which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Signed Binding

The second edition of this collected edition, revised and augmented. 

A complete ten volume set. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, and a facsimile plate of a page from Shakespeare's will, and a facsimile of Shakespeare's signatures to 'Volume I'. A folding plate to 'Volume V'. Collated, complete.

Bound in full red morocco with gilt borders by Jeffrey Binder, with their binder's signatures to the front pastedown.

A complete set the plays of the renowned William Shakespeare, including some of his most popular works. To the start of volume I there is a lot of interesting critical material including extracts from Rowe's life of Shakespeare, Shakespeare's will, a potential order for the plays, and more. 

This set includes: 'Volume I- The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Merry Wives of Windsor', 'Volume II- Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, and Love's Labour Lost', 'Volume III- Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and Taming the Shrew', 'Volume IV- All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfe Night, Winter's Tale, and Macbeth', 'Volume V- King John, King Richard II, King Henry IV. Part I, and King Henry IV. Part II', 'Volume VI-King Henry V, King Henry VI. Part I, Part II, and Part III', 'Volume VII-King Richard III, King Henry VIII, and Coriolanus', 'Volume VIII-Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, and Titus Andronicus', 'Volume IX-Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, and King Lear', and 'Volume X-Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello'.