1837 The Plays of William Shakspeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq. with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare

Description

Leather Binding

A new edition, comprising the works of notorious English playwright William Shakespeare. Complete in eight volumes. 

Uniformly bound in full calf, with decorative gilt to the spines and marbled endpapers. 

With a history of the stage, and a biographical sketch of Shakespeare by Scottish writer Alexander Chalmers. 

Volume I - Containing 'The Tempest', 'Two Gentlemen of Verona', and 'Merry Wives of Windsor'. With a portrait frontispiece. 

Volume II - Containing 'Twelfth Night', 'Measure for Measure', 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Love's Labour's Lost'. 

Volume III - Containing 'Merchant of Venice', 'As You Like It', 'All's Well That Ends Well', 'Taming of the Shrew', and 'Winter's Tale'. 

Volume IV - Containing 'Comedy of Errors', 'Macbeth', 'King John', 'King Richard II' and 'King Henry IV, Part I'.

Volume V - Containing 'King Henry IV, Part II', 'King Henry V', 'King Henry VI, Part I', 'King Henry VI, Part II', and 'King Henry VI, Part III'. 

Volume VI - Containing 'King Richard III', 'King Henry VIII', 'Troilus and Cressida', 'Timon of Athens', and 'Coriolanus'.

Volume VII - Containing 'Julius Caesar', 'Antony and Cleopatra', 'Cymbeline', 'Titus Andronicus', and 'Pericles'. 

Volume VIII - Containing 'King Lear', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Hamlet' and 'Othello'.