The Works of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes
Subtitle: Vol. V
By: by J. Payne Collier
Contributors: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883, editor; Barton, Thomas Pennant,  1803-1869,  former owner; Westleys & Clark
Publisher: Whittaker & Co.
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Description: the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions : with the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage
Notes: Includes index.

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue,   Shakespeare, p. 9, no. 72

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

The copy on shelf-number 2592.6 has a 9th volume the 2d edition of Collier's notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays ... London, 1853.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in embossed publisher's cloth, as issued, with the Shakespeare arms stamped in gilt on both covers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedowns. The binder's ticket of Westleys & Clark is present on the rear pastedown. Set accompanied by Collier's edition of notes and emendations  intended to supplement the previous 8 volumes of the set (cataloged separately under shelf no. G.4032.2).
Table of contents: title: 1. Preface. History of the English drama and stage to the time of Shakespeare. Life of Shakespeare. Will. Dedication prefixed to the folio of 1623. Commendatory verses. Additional notes. Glossarial index. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor; title: 2. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer-night's dream. Merchant of Venice; title: 3. As you like it. The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth-night, or, What you will. The winter's tale; title: 4. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, Part 1, 2. King Henry V; title: 5. King Henry VI, Part 1-3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII; title: 6. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens; title: 7. Julius C©Œsar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear. Othello; title: 8. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Pericles. Poems.