Folger Notes: Large paper edition.Title vignette (only included in large paper edition).
The "complete prose works" are the dedications of "Venus" and "Lucrece."
Introduction by C.W. Frederickson.
Bound in contemporary half marbled boards over goatskin? with title in gilt on spine. Interleaved. Prompter's copy with ms. directions. Title page has additional note of Bristow Brown in pencil and additional note reading Letter along back King Henry IV. Kemnle. Letter no longer present in copy.
Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with poem. Title within ornamental border. Shakespeare coat of arms, in colors, on end-papers. (From Omni); Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with poem
6 volumes. The text now first formed from a new collation of the original copies...Preface signed: W. C. H. [i.e. William Carew Hazlitt]. Based on Collier's edition of 1843 under same title. Includes prefaces and notes by Collier and Halliwell.
A sammelbande. Bound with Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. London. 1804; The Tempest, London, 1789; and All's Well that Ends Well, London, 1793. Bound in faded contemprary calf with taped edges. Barnett has additional pencilled note under bookplate. Contains booklabel reading Carolinus John Pinto on front pastedown. Unidentified armorial bookplate on back pastedown.
Spevack, Halliwell-Phillipps Bibliography, 1845:13. "Contains nearly the whole of the first, and a small portion of the second part," condensed into one, presumably for the purpose of representation. cf. Introd., p. xiii, xiv-xv. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
Contains most of the Sonnets (146) grouped under various titles, interspersed with the poems of the Passionate pilgrim, the Lover's complaint, the Phoenix and the Turtle, and a number of translations from Ovid, falsely ascribed to Shakespeare. Poems on Shakespeare by L. Digges, J. Warren, Milton W. Basse, and others precede and follow. Appended is "An addition of some excellent poems ... by other gentlemen" [Ben Johnson and others]: [21] p. "This reproduction is printed letter for letter, line for line, and page for page, as near the original as modern type will permit. The portrait has been specially engraved on steel in facsimile of the original in the British museum. The initial letters, head-pieces and cuts on the titles have also been reproduced ... for this edition." --Note, 2d prelim. Leaf.
With facsimile reproduction of original t.-p.: Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. [Printers mark] Printed at London by Tho. Cotes and are to be sold by John Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard. 1640. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)