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• Hamlet, prince of Denmark : a tragedy ; as it is now acted by His Majesty's servants.
  ESTC N17299. Western copy listed and ESTC lists 6 copies.Folger notes: The Hughs-Wilkes stage version, but with full text (Folger card catalog). With cast list. Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 308
• Critical, historical, and explanatory notes on Shakespeare, with emendations of the text and metre, by Zachary Grey.
  2 volumes. ESTC T101658. Western copy listed. B8 in volume 2 present. See ESTC note.
• Shakespear illustrated, or, The novels and histories on which the plays of Shakespear are founded / collected and translated from the original authors with critical remarks ... by the author of The female Quixote.
  3 vols. ESTC T138281. Western copy listed. Folger notes: The third and last volume" was published in 1754. Press figure on p. 62, vol. 2: 1; variant: no press figure" Need to check our copy.
• The beauties of Shakespear, regularly selected from each play; with a general index digesting them under proper headings illustrated with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors, by William Dodd, ...
  2 volumes. ESTC T93847. Western copy listed.
• Othello, the Moor of Venice. A tragedy. By William Shakespear.
• Remarks on the tempest; or, An attempt to rescue Shakespear from the many errors falsely charged on him, by his several editors; to which is prefixed a short account of the story, plot, disposition and chronology, of the play, as a plan for a new ed. of t
  ESTC T62752. ESTC lists 16 copies. Western copy listed.Folger note: Anonymous. By John Holt. Apparently a reissue of the sheets of the first edition entitled ’An attempte to rescue .. Maister Williaume Shakespere’ with a new titlepage and half-title.
• Romeo and Juliet : a tragedy / revis'd and alter'd from Shakespear, by Mr. Theophilus Cibber. First reviv'd (in September, 1744) at the Theatre in the Hay-Market: now acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane ; to which is added, A serio-comic apology, fo
  ESTC T62198. Western copy not listed. Dedication signed and dated: The. Cibber, Nov. 25, 1748. Arnott gives date as 1750, advertised 1st October 1750. "Some lines are borrowed from Otway's Caius Marius as well as the whole scene in the last act in which Juliet awakes"--W. Jaggard, Shakespeare bibliography. Folger notes: "Price one shilling and six-pence" on title page Arnott, J.F. Engl. theatrical lit., 2612 Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 444. [between 1748 and 1750] (Folger)
• The Works of Shakespeare in Nine Volumes: with a glossary / carefully printed from the Oxford edition in quarto,
  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
• Critical observations on Shakespeare. By John Upton.
  ESTC T57028. Western copy listed in ESTC. Folger notes: With a final advertisement leaf. Alston, III.82
• Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark
  ESTC T63021. Western copy not listed. ESTC lists 16 copies. Folger note: Sometimes attributed to Sir Thomas Hanmer.
• The dramatick works of John Dryden, esq., in six volumes.
  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.
• The tragedy of Locrine, the eldest son of King Brutus. By Shakespear.
  See ESTC T54117 and T54097. Need to check against copy. The attribution to William Shakespeare is false; also attributed to Wentworth Smith or Charles Tilney. P.25-48 misnumbered 27-50. "Advertisement" at end, 2 unnumbered pages. Also issued as part of: 'The dramatick works of William Shakespear' vol.4, London, R. Walker, 1734-35.
• The works of Mr. William Shakespeare.
  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.
• The tempest, or, The enchanted island : a comedy / first written by William Shakespear & since altered by Sr. William Davenant and Mr. John Dryden.
  N13512. Western copy not listed. False imprint. Adapted from the play by Approximate date. Shakespeare by Sir William Davenant and John Dryden, and arranged as an opera by Thomas Shadwell. The last three pages contain advertisements for T. Johnson, bookseller in The Hague.
• Sauny the Scot; or, The taming of the shrew; a comedy, as it is now acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by Her Majesty's company of comedians.
  ESTC T47112. Western copy listed. First edition.
• The ingratitude of a common-wealth; or, the fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus as it is acted at the Theatre-royal; by N. Tate.
  ESTC R3412. Western copy not listed. An alteration of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.Folger note: Woodward & McManaway, 1203
• The history of King Lear. : Acted at the Duke’s Theatre. Reviv’d with alterations. By N. Tate.
  ESTC R20622. Western copy not listed.Folger notes: An adaptation and alteration of Shakespeare’s King Lear; Woodward and MacManaway, 1198 Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 918 Bartlett, H. Mr. William Shakespeare, 174
• The idol of the clovvnes, or Insurrection of Wat the Tyler, with his fellow kings of the commons, against the English church, the king, the lawes, nobility and gentry, in the fourth yeare of King Richard the 2nd., anno. 1381.
  ESTC R208498. Western copy not listed. Includes material on Richard II and Tyler's Insurrection of 1381. Folger note: "Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 1st".
• The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together, by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea / translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot ... with the lines of Hannibal and Scipio African translated o
  STC 20070; Folger notes: A translation of: Vitae parallelae. The lives of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus are attributed to Donato Acciaiuoli. "The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder, and of Octauius Caesar Augustus" has separate dated title page. It is a translation by North of a compilation by Simon Goulart of Senlis, partly from the "Vitae excellentium imperatorum" of Cornelius Nepos ("Aemylius Probus"). Pagination and register are continuous.
• Il Pecorone di ser Giovanni Fiorentino : nel quale si contengono cinquanta novelle antiche, belle d'inventione et di stile.
  Source Text for Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.