Julius Caesar
Subtitle: a tragedy
By: by William Shakespeare ; collated with the old and modern editions
Contributors: Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773, editor; Owen, W. (William), -1793, bookseller; Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist; Ryland, William Wynne, 1732-1783, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; W. Bowyer and J. Nichols (London, England)
Publisher: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, and sold by W. Owen, between the Temple-Gates, Fleet-Street
Published: 1774
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Other titles: Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Julius Caesar
Notes: Edited by Charles Jennens, who similarly edited [Five plays of Shakespeare], London, Printed by W. and J. Richardson, and sold by B. White, 1770-1774. The five plays appear to have been issued together following his death, which ended the possibility of an edition of the complete works. The plays were probably also issued separately (Folger card catalog entry for Othello).

Signatures: A-Íı.

Title page vignette.

With a half-title.

Engraved frontispiece lettered: F. Hayman delin.; W.W. Ryland sculp.

ESTC T29287

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 5025

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 24, no. 323

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.4012.37 bound in early calfskin panelled in double-ruled gilt with an internal panel in blind, zig-zag tooling. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with two red, leather labels. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. An early inscription of editorial attribution to Jennens is present on the title page.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. 2596.16.2 no.3 is the third of three items bound together in a single volume.