The taming of the shrew
By: by Mr. William Shakespear
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, editor; Tonson, Jacob, -1735, bookseller; Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758, engraver
Publisher: Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
Published: 1734
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Other titles: Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Taming of the shrew
Notes: Signatures: A-C℗£℗ø D́œ

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces.

Engraved frontispiece lettered: P. Fourdrinier scul.; v. 3 p. 3.

With an advertisement at the front regarding the provisions of volume title pages, along with an attack on the competing Shakespeare publications of Walker.

Also issued as part of Tonson's edition of the Works of Shakespeare, v. 2, 1735.

Not in Barton collection catalog.

ESTC T54731

Ford, H.L.  Shakespeare 1700-1740, 257

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown pebbled cloth. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page.