ESTC T163208. Western copy listed. Folger notes:
Contains the plays only.
Dates follow "Clarendon Press" on volume title-page imprints of volumes 1-4. Volumes 4-6 imprints lacking names of Mess. Prince, and C. Selwin Rann. Volumes 5-6 imprints begin "Oxford: sold by J. Cooke."
Vol. 1-4 are dated, respectively, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1791; while v. 5 and 6 are undated. Jaggard suggests a terminal date of 1794.
All volumes with volume title-pages and half-titles; all plays with divisional titles.
Errata in v. 1.
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 505
7 volumes. Miniature format. Folger notes read: Each play with an individual title page reading "from the Chiswick Press" dated between 1816 and 1818. Plays with separate pagination and signatures.With Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeare, written expressly for this edition in 1814, revised and altered in March 1818 by John Britton, and Johnson’s preface in v. 1. Glossarial index in v. 7.
ESTC T127478. Western copy listed, but see Copy Specific notes. Illustrated 6 volumes.Folger note: All titlepages, except for ’All for love’, are in red and black.
Vol. v, no.2, in L.C. set. With special title-pages dated 1845, and reproductions of original title-pages, 1607 and 1655. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
With added series title, engr., and second half-title."He (i. e. Jem White) and Lamb were joint authors of the Original letters of Falstaff'; so wrote Southey to Edward Moxon in 1836."--p. xii.
Reprint of the original edition with reproduction of t.-p.: Original letters, &c. of Sir John Falstaff and his friends; now first made public by a gentleman, a descendant of Dame Quickly, from genuine manuscripts which have been in the possession of the Quickly family near four hundred years, London, 1796.
Vol. v, no. 1, in the L.C. set, with general t.-p.: The dramatic works of Thomas Heywood ... vol. I ... 1853. With reproduction of original t.-p.: The First And Second Partes o King Edward the Fourth. containing His mery pastime with the Tammer of Tamworth, as also his loue to faire Mistṙisse Soare... Imprinted at London by F.K. for Humfrey Lownes and Iohn Oxenbridge. 1600. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
Spevack, Halliwell-Phillipps Bibliography, 1842:5.Amyot, Thomas, ed. A supplement to Dodsley's Old plays. [London] 1853. V.4.Reprint of the first quarto, with reproduction of original t.-p.: A Most pleasaunt and excellent conceited Comedie, of Syr Iohn Falstaffe, and the merrie Wiues of Windsor...By William Shakespeare...London, Printed by T. C. for Arthur Iohnson...1602. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
The "Groundworke of conny-catching" has been attributed to Robert Greene, but on slight evidence. cf. p. xiv.With reproductions of oriinal title-pages.
Reprinted in 1880 for the New Shakespeare society, series vi, no. 7, under the title "The rogues and vagabonds of Shakespere's youth," and again in 1907 for "the Shakespeare library."