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• Macbeth. A tragedy; by William Shakespeare. With prefatory remarks ... Faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian.
  At head of title: Oxberry's edition.With foot-notes; Remarks signed: G. Soane.
• Hamlet, a tragedy : with prefatory remarks. The only ed. existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal / by W. Oxberry.
  Bound in marbled paper boards with taped spine. Not located in Accession Book.
• Hamlet : a tragedy / by William Shakespeare ; faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal.
  At head of title: Oxberry's edition. Imperfect: frontis. wanting.
• Annotations illustrative of the plays of Shakespeare by Johnson, Steevens, [and others].
  Folger note reads: From the same stereotype plates as those used for The dramatic works of William Shakespeare from the correct edition of Isaac Reed ... London, Printed for J. Walker ; G. Offor [etc., etc.] 1820.
• Hamlet, and As You Like It. A Specimen of A New Edition of Shakespeare
  Folger notes: Edited by Thomas Caldecott. "Caldecott is said to have been assisted by Wm. Crowe" (Jaggard)Issue restricted to 100 copies (Jaggard). Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 310 The first edition of Hamlet with the text of the 1623 Jaggard folio as a basis (Jaggard) Printer information from colophon; "London" follows address.
• The dramatic works of William Shakespeare.
  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.
• Lectures on the English poets ; delivered at the Surrey institution.
  IS this a Barnett?
• Hamlet travestie, in three acts / with burlesque annotations after the manner of Dr. Johnson and Geo. Steevens and the various commentators.
  6th edition. Folger note reads: With a final leaf (G4) of bookseller’s advertisements for John Miller.
• Macbeth, and King Richard the Third ; an essay, in answer to Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare.
  Folger notes: First published 1786 under title: Macbeth reconsidered.The "Remarks" are incorrectly ascribed, in the Preface, to William (for Thomas) Whately
• Warwickshire : being a concise topographical description of the different towns and villages in the county of Warwick, including historical notices of its public buildings and antiquities, ancient manorial customs, &c. &c. / from the elaborate work of Sir
  Illustrated with foldouts and maps, etc.
• Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticisms on His Genius and Writings; a New Chronology of His Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of His Sonnets; and a History of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry,
  2. volumes. Engraving on first page of first volume of Shakespeare by W.J. Fry.
• The tragical history of Macbeth; a new song.
  WorldCat lists 5 copies.
• Scribbleomania ; or, The printer's devil's polichronicon. A sublime poem. Ed. by Asner Pen-drag-on, esq. [pseud.].
  Bound in marbled boards with taped spine. Pencil name of S.W.H. Ireland on first endpaper. Ireland name likely an authorial attribution and not a signature.
• Shakspeare's himself again: or, The language of the poet asserted: being a full but dispassionate examen of the readings and interpretations of the several editors. The whole comprised in a series of notes, sixteen hundred in number, and further illustrat
  2 volumes. Illustrated.
• Mounted proofs on india paper of the engraved title-pages and plates of the Dramatic works of William Shakespeare, published at London, by T. Tegg, 1812.
  Approximate date. Folger notes: 50 prints in 1 v. : engraving. A collection of engraved title pages and plates from the Tegg edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1812-1815.
• Accepted addresses : or, Praemium poetarum; to which are added, Macbeth travestie, in three acts, and Miscellanies / by different hands.
  BL lists as Fourth Edition
• Rejected addresses; or, The new Theatrum poetarum.
  Twelfth Edition. Advertisement precedes titlepage. Written by James and Horatio [Horace] Smith. Parodies of contemporary poets.
• Rejected addresses; or, The new Theatrum poetarum.
  "First edition." Folger notes: Written by James and Horatio [Horace] Smith. Parodies of contemporary poets.
• Romeo and Juliet travesty, in three acts.
  Bound in contemporary half goat? over marbled boards. Signature on first front endpaper reads " Rich Jarvis Broad street, Plymouth"
• Neglected genius; a poem illustrating the untimely and unfortunate fate of many British poets, from the period of Henry the Eighth, to the aera of the unfortunate Chatterton; containing imitations of their different styles.
  Portrait of John Dryden pasted on p.107.
• Biographia dramatica; or, A companion to the playhouse: containing historical and critical memirs, and original anecdotes, of British and Irish dramatic writers, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions; among whom are some of the most celebrat
  First edition published anonymously, 1764, under title: "The companion to the playhouse"; 2d edition by I. Reed, 1782, under present title. 3 vol. in 4 books
• The Life of Arthur Murphy, Esq., by Jesse Foot, Esq., His Executor
  Said to have been compiled by William Combe, from papers and suggestions furnished by Foot. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 11, p. 434.Includes, in additional to correspondence, Murphy's parody on Garrick-Hamlet, with alterations (p. 256-274).
• The gleaner; a series of periodical essays, selected and arranged from scarce or neglected volumes, with introduction and notes, by Nathan Drake.
  Folger notes: Covers the period from 1713 to 1797.Includes index
• Hamlet travestie, in three acts / with annotations by Dr. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and other commentators.
  Folger notes: Anonymous burlesque adaptation of Hamlet by John Poole; the annotations are also burlesqued.Printer’s name from colophon; "London" follows printer’s name. Signatures: A-F⁸ G⁸ (-G8). With a half-title (leaf A1). Also available as an online copy through Hathi Trust.
• An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare Compared With the Greek and French Dramatic Poets
  6th edition. Corrected. Illustrated with music.