The works of Shakespear : in nine volumes : with a glossary / carefully printed from the Oxford edition in quarto, 1744.
Uniform title
Plays. 1747
Created/published
London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton; S. Birt; T. Longma [sic] and T. Shewell; H. Lintott; C. Hitch; J. Brindley; J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; R. Wellington; E. New; and B. Dod, MDCCXLVII [1747]
Knapton et al. published two editions of the works in nine volumes in 1747 with completely different settings of type and differing pagination. In this edition, there is an engraving for each play; on the general title page, the final line of the title reads "Quarto, 1744"; the second "n" in "Longman" is dropped from the imprint; and the printer's devices on the volume title pages vary.
Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer.
Contains the plays only.
Vol. 1. Signatures: A⁴ a-c⁶ d⁴ B-Z⁶ 2A². Pagination: xliv, [8], 268 p., [6] leaves of plates -- v. 2. Signatures: A-2E⁶ 2F⁶ (-2F6). Pagination: 346 p., [5] leaves of plates -- v. 3. Signatures: A-2A⁶ 2B⁴. Pagination: 295, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates -- v. 4. Signatures: [A]² B-2E⁶. Pagination 328 p., [4] leaves of plates -- v. 5. Signatures: A-2E⁶. Pagination: 336 p., [4] leaves of plates -- v. 6. Signatures: A-2G⁶. Pagination: 360 p. -- v. 7. Signatures: A-2E⁶ 2F². Pagination: 339, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates -- v. 8. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2E⁶. Pagination: 332 p., [4] leaves of plates -- v. 9. Signatures: A-2D⁶ 2E². Pagination: 296, [32] p., [3] leaves of plates.
Vol. 1 with a general title page; all volumes with a dated volume title page stating: "the works of Mr. William Shakespear : volume the first [second, etc.] ... "; all plays with an individual play half-title.
Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: G. Vander Gucht (v. 1). With unlettered engraving after Gravelot of Shakespeare's monument in Westminster Abbey (v. 1) and unlettered individual play engravings after the 1740 Theobald plates of Vander Gucht and Gravelot.
Vol. 1 with a preface, Pope's preface, Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe, and Ben Jonson's poem. Vol. 9 with a glossary.
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labours lost v. 3. As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night v. 4. Winter's tale ; King Lear ; King John ; King Richard II v. 5. King Henry IV ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 v. 6. King Henry VI, parts 2-3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra v. 8. Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline v. 9. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), T138595 Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 500
Bookplate: Laura Martha Sealy. Bookseller's ticket: G.A. Poynder, second-hand book-shop, next to general Post Office, Reading. Full calf binding. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.
Folger accession
cs137
Call number
PR2752 1747c3 copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking v. 9. Bookplate (motto: La premiere chose qu'on doit faire quand on a emprunte un livre c'est de le lire afin de pouvoir le rendre plutot-Menagiana. Vol IV) of David Garrick. Bookplate: Ex Libris Clementis Scott. Armorial bookplate of Carrington Garrick. Inscriptions v.1: "Albinia Garrick, 18[54?] for H[oll?]y Trevor, [G & G?]"; "To Clement Scott from Augustin Daly, Oct 6/97." Some pencil manuscript notes in preliminaries of v.5-6,8. Full sheep binding.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present
Call number
PR2752 1747c3 copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Interleaved; ink manuscript annotations of William Dodd. Manuscript letter dated Nov. 7th, 1752, from Wm. Dodd to "Sir" tipped into v. 1 preliminaries. Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth, Samuel Johnson, 1745, bound second within v. 8, following Troilus and Cressida t.p. Armorial bookplate of Charles Meigh. Bookplate "from the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry." Calling card inserted in v.2, leaf F2: "Sir Chandos Leigh, 45. Upper Gosvenor Street" with ink manuscript "communicate with J.E.L. Pickering Esq." Quarter calf binding with marbled boards, spines lettered: "Dr. Dodd's manuscript notes", height 21cm; housed in red goat and cloth slipcases, removed to curatorial closet. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.
