Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies

Extracts from the novels and tales on which the plays are founded and sometimes reprints of the early quartos, are given in the introductions to the plays. The illustrations to the life (v. 1: p. 1-263) are mainly from Fairholt's "Home of Shakspere illustrated."

Facsimiles include many from the first folio, or from contemporary works, both manuscript and printed

Vols. 1-2, printed by C. and J. Adlard, the rest by J.E. Adlard

v. 1. Life of Shakespeare ; Essay on the formation of the text ; The tempest -- v. 2. Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Local illustrations: Windsor and Brentford - -v. 3. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors -- v. 4. Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 5. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice -- v. 6. As you like it ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 7. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night, or, What you will -- v. 8. Winter's tale ; King John -- v. 9. Richard II ; Henry IV, pt. 1. -- v. 10. Henry IV, pt. 2. ; Henry V -- v. 11. Henry VI, pt. 1-3 ; Richard III -- v. 12. Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus --v. 13. Titus Andronicus ; Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar -- v. 14. Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear -- v. 15. Othello ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline, acts I-III -- v. 16. Cymbeline, acts IV-V ; Pericles

Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound primarily in maroon morocco with marbled papers in the style of the Library bindery. Volume 1 bound as issued, but with a letter from Francis Horsfall to Thomas Pennant Barton, along with a prospectus for the set bound-in at the front. Bound-in with vol. 5 are pieces of manuscript correspondence between Halliwell-Phillipps and William Fairholt. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown of each volume. Vols. 1-9 contain limitation statements signed by both Halliwell-Phillipps and Adlard, all numbered as copy 110. The remainder are unsigned and unnumbered

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