King Lear
Subtitle: a tragedy
By: by William Shakespeare ; collated with the old and modern editions
Contributors: Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773, editor; White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794, bookseller; Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, engraver; Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist; Ravenet, Simon Francʹois, 1706-1774, engraver; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Jolley, Thomas, former owner; W. and J. Richardson
Publisher: Printed by W. and J. Richardson; and sold by B. White, in Fleet-Street
Published: 1770
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Other titles: Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction); Early English playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: King Lear
Notes: Also issued as part of a 2 v. collection with 4 other plays: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Julius Caesar (dated 1770-1774).

Edited by Charles Jennens.

Includes half-title page (a1).

Signatures: áı b́œ A-Ḿı N1.

Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: R. Earlom fecit; other plate lettered: F. Hayman del.; Ravenet sculp.

Numbers 191-192 repeated in pagination.

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 26,  no. 361

ESTC T68019

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under G.4012.47 bound in ca. 19th-century calfskin panelled in gilt with a zig-zag border in blind. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. An early inscription is present on the second front flyleaf recto regarding textual cues and a single sheet with a bibliographical inscription in the hand of Thomas Pennant Barton is bound-in just after. In this copy, a second "a" gathering (áı) is bound-in after B6. The Ravenet plate is wanting.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under G.4012.46 quarterbound in red morocco and fan marbled papers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The Ravenet plate is wanting.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. 2596.16.1 is the first of two items bound together in a single volume. Present on the front flylear recto is the armorial bookplate and autograph of Thomas Jolley, the latter dated 1800. In this copy, the Ravenet plate is wanting.