The dramatick works of William Shakespeare
Subtitle: printed complete, with D. Samuel Johnson's preface and notes. To which is prefixed the life of the author ...
Edition: Munroe & Francis ed.
Publisher: Printed by Munroe & Frances
Published: 1802
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Notes: Title page engraved with vignette (author's portrait).

The first Boston edition, probably edited by David Francis, one of its printer-publishers ... It passed through two subsequent editions ... 1807 and 1810-12. (Jaggard. William Shakespeare bibliography p. 508 cf. also Boston Public Library, catalog of Burton collection. I p. 5) W. W. Clapp in his record of the Boston Stage, 1853, says "The notes were rewritten and condensed by Mr. Munroe from an English edition and subsequently adapted by several pbulishers."

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Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 508-509
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The author's life. Dr. Johnson's preface. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors; title: v. 2. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream; 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 ; King Henry V; title: v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III; title: v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra; title: v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline; title: v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.