ESTC T154268. Western copy listed and variants match those listed in ESTC.Folger notes: Issued individually, or as Vol. IX for Bell’s edition of Shakespeare’s plays, 1774.
Date precedes booksellers’ names in imprint.
Engraved title page.
With a final leaf of advertisements for Bell.
Folger also adds details on three similar issues of this edition.
Includes a printed notice on first endpaper, reading: "In consequence of this Volume occupying nearly double the number of pages originally intended, and only 250 copies being printed, the whole impression, with the exception of 50, being engaged by the Shakespeare club, a few remaining copies may be had of Messrs. Crookes, Printers...price 5 shillings"Illustration of Shakespeare before title page.
Contains passages from Shakespeare, in English and Greek on opposite pages. Preface by signed: B.H.K. [i.e. Benjamin Hall Kennedy]. (From Omni). 2d ed. Altered and rev.
ESTC T65177? Likely vol. 1-2 of Bell's 20 volume edition published ca. 1788 but with different dates on various volumes. Contains foldout.Folger notes:
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 505
Approximate date. "With his hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face, As he would draw it. Shakespeare.'"Illustrated by 330 engravings."Originally published: 1852.Includes publisher's advertisement [2] p. at end. (From Omni)