Shakespeare's plays
Subtitle: with his life
By: Illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts, executed by H.W. Hewet, after designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and others. Ed. by Gulian C. Verplanck, LL.D., with critical introductions, notes, etc., original and selected...
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Published: 1847
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Histories; Comedies; Tragedies; Biography
Other titles: Illustrated Shakespeare
Work titles: Plays
Notes: Each volume has added t-p., illustrated: The illustrated Shakespeare...

Issued in parts, 1844-1847.

The text is based on Collier's; the notes, etc., selected from Malone, Singer, Collier, and especially from Knight's pictorial edition, from which most of the illustrations are taken.

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 525

Modern Lang. Assn. of Amer. Publications, XXII, p. 661-666

Westfall, A. Van R. American Shakespeare criticism, p. [128]-136
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Histories. Life of William Shakespeare; title: Shakespeare's will; title: King John; title: King Richard the second; title: King Henry the fourth; title: King Henry the sixth; title: Richard the third; title: King Henry the eighth.; title: v. 2. Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona; title: Comedy of errors; title: Taming the shrew; title: Much ado about nothing; title: Love's labour's lost; title: Merchant of Venice; title: Merry wives of Windsor; title: Twelfth night; or, what you will; title: As you like it; title: Midsummer night's dream; title: Measure for measure; title: Tempest; title: A;;'s well that ends well; title: Winter's tale.; title: v. 3. Tragedies. Romeo and Juliet; title: Othello, the moor of Venice; title: Hamlet, prince of Denmark; title: Macbeth; title: King Lear; title: Cymbeline; title: Timon of Athens; title: Coriolanus; title: Julius Caesar; title: Antony and Cleopatra; title: Troilus and Cressida; title: Titus Andronicus; title: Pericles, prince of Tyre.