Approximate date. "Erklärung der abgekürzten Citate" at end of each volume."Register zur Band IV and V" by P. Haas and Creizenach was issued with Bd.5.
Illustrated with plates and table and contains several foldouts. Folger notes: Originally published, anonymously and without date (probably in 1530) under title: Hystoria nouellamente ritrouata di due nobili amanti ... Stampato in ... Venetia, per B. de Bendoni. cf. Passano, Novelliere italiani in prosa, 2. ed., pte. 1, p. 516-517.
Added half-title: Portrait of Shakespeare with legend "The Shakespeare classics" within ornamental border.
Appendix (p. 107-147): The second day of Puget de La Serre's "Pandoste," 1631. Pandoste ou La princesse malheureuse, tragedie en prose.
A modernized edition based on the first edition of 1588, with reproduction of original title-page in photogravure.