The plays and poems of William Shakespeare
Subtitle: in eleven volumes
Contributors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Droeshout, Martin, 1601- illustrator; Nattali, Michael Angelo, bookseller; Worthington, William Henry, approximately 1795-approximately 1839, printmaker; Pickering, William, 1796-1854, bookseller; Combe, Thomas, 1797-1872, bookseller; Loeb, Adeline Moses, 1876-1953, former owner
Publisher: William Pickering, Chancery Lane; Nattali and Combe, Tavistock Street; Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Work titles: Works
Notes: Two states of this edition have been identified which can be distinguished by corrigenda and cancel leaves. The earlier state has both the original, misprinted leaves of text bound within the plays, as well as one leaf detailing corrigenda for every volume, and all of the replacement cancel leaves following the glossary in v. 11. The cancel leaves have the volume number printed in the direction lines, the original leaves do not. The other state has the cancel leaves correctly bound within each play, as well as a final leaf of corrigenda in each volume.

Printer's information from colophon.

With vol. half-titles and vol. title pages; plays with divisional titles.

Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: M. Droeshout, W.H. Worthington sc. London, published by William Pickering, Chancery Lane; Nattali & Combe, Tavistock St.; & Talboys & Wheeler, Oxford, 1825.

Wreath printer's device on vol. t.p.

"A series of thirty-eight engravings, to embellish this edition of Shakespeare, principally from designs by Stothard, price 38s. May be had of the publishers" (Half-sheet Pickering advertisement inserted into Folger Library copy 2 v. 11).

Keynes, G. William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 89
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Preface to Shakespeare / by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night; title: v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost; title: v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew; title: v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John; title: v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V; title: v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III; title: v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar; title: v. 8. Coriolanus ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline; title: v. 9. Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear; title: v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello; title: v. 11. Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate pilgrim ; Lover's complaint. Glossary.