An edition of 50 copies printed. At head of title: The first edition of Shakespeare. A reduced facsimile of the earlier one made by Staunton in 1866 (type extremely small). Text in two columns. Includes 32 p. of publisher’s advertisements, with a date; printed by J. Ogden & Co., London. (From Folger)
6 vols. Illustrated. ESTC N26060.
Folger notes:
The first edition of Shakespeare’s plays in quarto, and Pope’s first edition.
Contains the plays only. A seventh volume of the Poems printed by J. Darby for A. Bettesworth, etc., was issued in 1725 to accompany the plays.
With a general title page in red and black dated 1725; volume title pages read: The works of Mr. William Shakespear and are dated 1723. Each play with a divisional title page.
Engraved portrait frontispiece, dated 1721, and Stratford bust lettered: G. Vertue sculp.
With Pope’s preface, Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare by Rowe, Ben Johnson’s poem, and a list of subscribers in v. 1; with an index and table in v. 6.
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, p. 19-21
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 498. Published between 1723-1725.
ESTC T138595. Western copy not listed. Illustrated. Folger notes:
Knapton et al. published two editions of the works in nine volumes in 1747 with completely different settings of type and differing pagination. In this edition, there is an engraving for each play; on the general title page, the final line of the title reads "Quarto, 1744"; the second "n" in "Longman" is dropped from the imprint; and the printer’s devices on the volume title pages vary.
Contains the plays only
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 500
9 volumes. Volume 1 only. Vol.1 is the third edition (Folger note) v1: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors.
Vols. 8-9 have imprint: London and Cambridge.Approximate date. First edition of the "Cambridge Shakespeare"; v.1 by Clark and John Glover; v.2-9 by Clark and Wright.
9 vols.
ESTC T63023. 7th edition.Folger notes:
The gentleman = Thomas Edwards, who signs the dedication.
With an additional titlepage: ’The canons of criticism and glossary; the trial of the letter [upsilon], alias Y, and sonnets. By Thomas Edwards, .. ’; and with fourteen final pages of index, and three of advertisements.
Cited in: Alston, III.91
