The merry wives of Windsor
Subtitle: a comedy
By: by Mr. William Shakespear
Contributors: Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716, artist; Tonson, Jacob, -1735, bookseller
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: 70
Other titles: Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Merry wives of Windsor
Notes: Three different editions issued by Tonson in 1734, primarily differentiated by their title page vignettes.

Signatures: A-C℗£℗ø

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initial.

Frontispiece lettered: Lud. Du Guernier inv.

With a final advertisement leaf defaming the Shakespeare editions of R. Walker.

In this edition the title page ornament is a bowl of fruit.

Not in Barton collection catalog.

ESTC T54717

Ford, H.L.  Shakespeare 1700-1740, 199

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.