The plays and poems of William Shakespeare
By: Corrected from the latest and best London editions, with notes, by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. ; To which are added, a glossary and the life of the author. ; Embellished with a striking likeness from the collection of His Grace the Duke of Chandos. ; Vol. I[-VIII]
Contributors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed; Field, Robert, 1769?-1819, engraver
Edition: First American edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29496; Early American imprints -- no. 31180
Publisher: Printed and sold by Bioren & Madan.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Portraits
Notes: Volumes 4-8 were published in 1796.

Edition statement transposed; precedes volume number on title page.

Frontispiece portrait engraved by Robert Field.

Vol. 1: [4], xlviii, 384 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 412 p.; v. 3: 432 p.; v. 4: 447, [1] p.; v. 5: 392 p.; v. 6: 388 p.; v. 7: 452 p.; v. 8: 304, iv, [3], 8-128 p.

Numerous errors in paging.

Erratum note, v. 1, p. 384.

Evans 29496

Evans 31180

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