The family Shakspeare : in eight volumes : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family / by Thomas Bowdler, Esq., F.R.S. & S.A.
1823
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Details
Title
The family Shakspeare : in eight volumes : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family / by Thomas Bowdler, Esq., F.R.S. & S.A.
Uniform title
Plays. 1823. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Edition
The third edition.
Created/published
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1823 (London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square)
Description
8 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. author.
Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825.
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898, former owner.
Gwyn, R., Mrs., active 1825, former owner.
Waters, Mark, active 1825, former owner.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.
A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer.
Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825.
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898, former owner.
Gwyn, R., Mrs., active 1825, former owner.
Waters, Mark, active 1825, former owner.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.
A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer.
Note
Printer's name from colophon.
New setting of type (Folger card catalog).
Each volume has a half-title and volume title page.
New setting of type (Folger card catalog).
Each volume has a half-title and volume title page.
Contents
v. 1: Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well
v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1-2 ; King Henry V
v. 5. King Henry VI, part 1-3 ; King Richard III
v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus
v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.
v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well
v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1-2 ; King Henry V
v. 5. King Henry VI, part 1-3 ; King Richard III
v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus
v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.
Source of acquisition
hldg 500362
Genre/form
Expurgated editions.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
PR2752 1823j copy 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Autograph: C.L. Dodgson, 1875. In calf binding with gold-tooled spine and black leather spine labels.
Folger accession
cs1194
Call number
PR2752 1823j copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Quarter bound in dark leather (sheep?) with marbled paper boards and endleaves; gold-tooled spine titles; top edge gilt. Newspaper clipping about a political appointment laid in v. 6; red ribbon laid in v. 8.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present
Call number
PR2752 1823j copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Presentation inscription: Mark Waters, from his friend Mrs. R. Gwyn, 1825. Note on purchase laid in v. 7; torn mailing label to H.C. Folger from Gabriel Wells laid in v. 8, both removed to case file. Bound in grained brown leather (sheep?), rebacked, with gold tooling and red leather spine labels; marbled endleaves and edges.
Folger accession
cs1950
Call number
FAST ACC 271618 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Bookplate of Nathan Appleton inside each volume. Seven newspaper reviews of Fanny Kemble's performances of Shakespeare in Boston in 1857 pasted in at the appropriate plays.