The merchant of Venice
Subtitle: a comedy, in five acts
By: by William Shakspeare
Series: French's standard drama -- no. LXI
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 1848
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Notes: With printed cast lists dated 1824-1848.

Autograph of George W. Wilson, 11 March 1875.

Part of the Shakespeare Promptbook Collection. See Newlin, Jeanne T. et al. “Shakespeare Promptbooks in the Harvard Theatre Collection: A Catalogue.” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 1, 1987.

Promptbook, interleaved marked for a production with Charles Barrow as Shylock and Annie Clarke as Portia; with a sketch of Shylock in profile dated Kittery Point Maine, 9 July 1876. Pasted is a fragment of a program dated 7 October 1876 listing George W. Wilson as Launcelot Gobbo.

Eight copies with slight variations in imprint and paper covers, bound together.