The plays and poems of William Shakespeare : printed from the text of J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. With the life and portrait of the poet. Complete in seven volumes.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616,author.
Collier, John Payne,1789-1883.
Later printings with an '1843' date on the title page have no reference to J. Payne Collier's text on the title page. The second edition of 1868 refers instead to the text of the Rev. Alexander Dyce (Dyce having discredited Collier's text of the plays).
Earlier printings have double pagination: continuous at foot of page and separate pagination for each individual play at the top of the page.
With frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare.
Coriolanus --Romeo and Juliet -- Timon of Athens -- Julius Caesar -- Macbeth.
Germany Leipzig.