The merry wives of Windsor
Subtitle: a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
By: by Shakespeare
Contributors: Wenman, Joseph, -1790, bookseller; Covent Garden Theatre; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Publisher: Printed for J. Wenman, no. 144, Fleet-Street, and sold by all other booksellers in town and country
Published: 1778
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Other titles: Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Merry wives of Windsor
Notes: Part of a series issued with numbers of The theatrical magazine, and also separately. Possibly issued with The oracle by Susanna Maria Cibber, and The judgement of Paris by William Congreve.--ESTC.

Signatures: Áþ(-A4) B́þ Ćþ(-C4)

Engraved frontispiece lettered: Published by J. Wenman, 1 Sepr. 1778.

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces.

Printed in double columns.

Not in Barton Collection catalog.

ESTC T39291

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern red morocco and papier tourniquet. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page and the bookplate of the Billings Fund is present on the front pastedown. In this copy, the engraved frontispiece is wanting.