The plays and poems of William Shakespeare.
By: Corrected from the latest and best London editions, with notes, by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. ; To which are added, a glossary and the life of the author. ; Embellished with a striking likeness from the collection of His Grace the Duke of Chandos. ; Vol. I[-VIII]
Contributors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed; Field, Robert, 1769?-1819, engraver
Edition: First American edition
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29496
Publisher: Printed and sold by Bioren & Madan.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Language -- Glossaries, etc; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Portraits
Genres: Glossaries, etc; Portraits
Notes: Volumes 4-8 were published in 1796

Edition statement transposed; precedes volume number on title page

Frontispiece portrait engraved by Robert Field

Vol. 1: [4], xlviii, 384 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 412 p.; v. 3: 432 p.; v. 4: 447, [1] p.; v. 5: 392 p.; v. 6: 388 p.; v. 7: 452 p.; v. 8: 304, iv, [3], 8-128 p

Numerous errors in paging

Erratum note, v. 1, p. 384

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Table of contents: title: . 1: Preface to the American edition. Life of Shakspeare. Shakspeare's will. Glossary. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. --; title: v. 2: Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. --; title: v. 3: Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. --; title: v. 4: King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. --; title: v. 5: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. --; title: v. 6: King Henry VIII. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. --; title: v. 7: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Cymbeline. King Lear. --; title: v. 8: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Poems: Venus and Adonis. Tarquin and Lucrece. Sonnets. Passionate pilgrim. Lover's complaint.