Barnett Shakespeare Project 2.0

Items

• Critical observations on Shakespeare. By John Upton.
  ESTC T57028. Western copy listed in ESTC.
• The Works of Shakespeare in Eight Volumes
  ESTC T54701. Western copy listed. Illustrated.
• Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark
  ESTC T63021. Western copy not listed. ESTC lists 16 copies.
• The dramatick works of John Dryden, esq., in six volumes.
  Each play has special t.-p.; v.1 has both general and special t.-p.
• Twelfth-night : or, What you will / by Shakespear.
  ESTC T54138 or N504250. Also issued in ’The dramatick works of William Shakespear’ vol. 7, London, R. Walker, 1734-35.Page 56 misnumbered 54. Head-pieces; initial.
• The history of King Lear : a tragedy, as it is now acted at the King's theatre / reviv'd with alterations by N. Tate.
  See ESTC T36409. Different from Folger copy. See Folger list of variants. First published 1681. "The alteration consists chiefly in running 'through the whole a love betwixt Edgar and Cordelia' and in ending the play with their marriage and Lear's triumph"--Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Boston Public Library.
• The tempest, or, The enchanted island : a comedy, as it is now acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre.
  ESTC R17310. Western copy listed. Variants include: Preface signed by Dryden. and page 7 numbered 5. An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest by Dryden and Sir William D'Avenant.
• The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together, by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea / translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot ... with the lines of Hannibal and Scipio African translated out of Latin into French by Charles de l'Esclvse and out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North, knight; hereunto are also added the liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder, tyrant of Sicilia, of Augustus Caesar, of Plutarch, and of Seneca: with the liues of nine other excellent chieftaines of warre: collected out of Aemylius Probus, by S.G.S. and Englished by the aforesaid translator.
  STC 20070; A translation of: Vitae parallelae. Head-pieces, initials. The lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon ... (p. [1105-1244) has separate t.-p. with same imprint.
• Il Pecorone di ser Giovanni Fiorentino : nel quale si contengono cinquanta novelle antiche, belle d'inventione et di stile.
  Source Text for Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
• Poems and songs.
  Photograph of Will Hays proceeding title page.
• The second part of King Henry the Sixth.
  Pocket Falstaff
• A disquisition on the scene, origin, date, etc. etc. of Shakespeare's Tempest, in a letter to Benjamin Heywood Bright / from Joseph Hunter
  “One hundred copies only printed.”, Title Vignette (from Folger)
• Bacon or Shakespeare? an historical enquiry.
  A criticism of articles by R. M. Bucke, W. Theobald, Mrs. Henry Pott, and others.
• Patient Grissil: a comedy by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton. Reprinted from the black-letter edition of 1603. With an introduction and notes.
  With reproduction of original t.-p. Introduction signed: J. P. C. [i. e. John Payne Collier]
• New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare : In a letter to Thomas Amyot, esq., F.R.S., treasurer of the Society of antiquaries, from J. Payne Collier, F.S.A.
  "The documents on which they were founded are mainly spurious."--Dict. nat. biog. Limited ed.
• Rejected addresses; or, The new Theatrum poetarum.
  12 ed.
• The mad folk of Shakespeare. Psychological essays. By John Charles Bucknill.
  "Three of the ... essays have already appeared in the ... 'Quarterly journal of mental science." (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
• The Works of Shakespeare Imperial Edition
  2nd edition revised, with illustrations in steel.