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Shakespeare's plays with his life : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts, executed by H.W. Hewet, after designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and others /
The text is based on Collier's; the notes, etc., selected from Malone, Singer, Collier, and especially from Knight's pictorial edition, from which most of the illustrations are taken.each separately paged, without continuous pagination.Issued in parts, most with wrappers having title: Harper's illuminated and illustrated Shakespeare. The fascicles, though numbered, were not intended to be bound in numerical order. The order prescribed by the publisher and printed in the table of contents (v. 1. p. [iii]) is that followed in the LC copy; Verplanck, however, urged (v. 1, p. xiii subscribers to arrange the plays--within the three groups, Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies--in the order of their composition. To this end, the plays areEach volume has added, engraved, t.-p.: The illustrated Shakespeare ...The first American illustrated Shakespeare. Complete sets of this, the only printing, are scarce due to destruction of the plates in Harper's 1853 fire. Cf. Westfall.v. 1: Preface. Order of the play. William Shakespeare, a biography. Some account of the life of William Shakespeare / by Mr. Rowe. Life of William Shakespeare / abridged from Collier. Shakespeare's will. Folio editions of Shakespeare's plays. Commendatory verses.Shakespeare's name and autographs. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII -- v. 2: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Taming of the shrew. Much ado about nothing. Love labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Midsummer night's dream. Measure for measure. Tempest. All's well that ends well. Winter's tale -- v. 3: Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles.Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibl.,Mode of access: Internet.spec: Inscribed on title-page: Presented to E. H. Thompson [sic.], Esq. by G.C. Verplanck, New York, Oct. 1849." Bound in brown half-calf with gilt design and lettering on spine. Marbled boards, fore-edges, and end-papers