Plays of Shakespeare in Nine Volumes.

Item

Title
Plays of Shakespeare in Nine Volumes.
list of authors
Shakespeare, William
Publisher
William Pickering, Chancery Lane, MDCCCXXV [1825] ([London] : Corrall, printer)
Date
1825
General Notes
Folger notes: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, & Reed.Printer’s name from colophon, v. 9.
Diamond classics--Keynes.
This collected set in 9 volumes issued "1) in red cloth, paper labels, at 2 lbs. 17s, or 2) in morocco at, 4 lbs. 7s. Also issued without the engravings."--Keynes.
For the issue with engravings: each play accompanied by an engraving; frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare in v. 1 engraved by Augustus Fox from a picture painted by T. Stothard.
Also issued by the publisher in XXXVIII parts in original printed wrappers with continuous pagination, cataloged separately (not mentioned by Keynes). Copies bound in 9 volumes not in one of those two bindings may have been individual parts collected and bound by a former owner. In the absence of other information, copies bound as 9 volumes with the general and volume title pages are considered to have been issued as a set by the publisher. Keynes, G. William Pickering publisher (rev. ed.), p. 88
Vols. 1-9, but Vol. 7 missing. See next entry. Bound in early brown cloth? with early spine paper labels and volume numbers. Binder's ticket in each volume reads George Simms, Successor to M.E. Nettleton, Bookseller Whimple SI Plymouth. In Vol. 1, Barnett lists numbers as 317-325 and all volumes have added date of 4/79, i.e. April, 1879.
list of editors
Folger notes: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, & Reed.
Spatial Coverage
London
Identifier
PR2753.P59 1825
locator
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