The Works of Mr William Shakespear
Subtitle: Volume the First: Consisting of Comedies
By: collated and corrected by the former editions, by Mr. Pope
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, editor; Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718; Tonson, Jacob, -1735, bookseller; Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Series: The Works of Shakespear in Six Volumes, Volume the First
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson, in the Strand
Published: 1725
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Other titles: Works of Mr. William Shakespear; Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Works
Notes: With a cancel general title page and the original title pages to vols. 2-6 bearing the title "The works of Mr. William Shakespear" and the imprint: Printed for Jacob Tonson, MDCCXXIII.

A supplementary volume of poems was also issued in 1725, "To which is prefix'd, an essay onthe art, rise, and progress of the stage, in Greece, Rome, and England [by C. Gildon] ...The whole revis'd and corrected, with a preface by Dr. Sewell. London, Printed by J. Darby for A. Bettesworth [etc.]

General title, in vol. 1, printed in red and black.

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

Ford, H.L.  Shakespeare, 1700-1740, p. 19-21

ESTC N26060

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 2

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under G.4021.1 bound variously in modern red morocco with papier tourniquet (vol. 1) and ca. 18th-century red morocco panelled and tooled in gilt with spines rebacked (vols. 2-6). The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on all front pastedowns and that of the Cowper family, with the motto "Tuum est," on vols. 2-6. A small publisher's advertisement for Halliwell-Phillipps' Shakespeare folio edition is laid onto the pastedown of vol. 2.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under PR2752 .P7 1725x (formerly 4591.1) bound in various modern library bindings.
Table of contents: title: Tempest; title: Midsummer Night's Dream; title: Two Gentlemen of Verona; title: Merry Wives of Windsor; title: Measure for Measure; title: Comedy of Errors; title: Much Ado About Nothing