The works of William Shakespeare / ed. by William Aldis Wright.
1893
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Details
Title
The works of William Shakespeare / ed. by William Aldis Wright.
Uniform title
Works. 1893-1895. Macmillan and Co.
Created/published
London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1893-1895 (Cambridge : University Press)
Description
40 v. ; 27 cm
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. author.
Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914.
Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926, former owner.
Macmillan Company, publisher.
University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914.
Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926, former owner.
Macmillan Company, publisher.
University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
Series
The Cambridge Shakespeare
Note
"Five hundred copies of this edition on hand-made paper were printed in 1893"--v. 1, title page verso.
Title printed in red and black.
Title printed in red and black.
Contents
v. 1. Tempest
v. 2. Two gentlemen of Verona
v. 3. Merry wives of Windsor
v. 4. Measure for measure
v. 5. Comedy of errors
v. 6. Much ado about nothing
v. 7. Love's labour's lost
v. 8. Midsummer night's dream
v. 9. Merchant of Venice
v. 10. As you like it
v. 11. Taming of the shrew
v. 12. All's well that ends well
v. 13. Twelfth night
v. 14. Winter's tale
v. 15. King John
v. 16. King Richard II
v. 17. King Henry IV, part 1
v. 18. King Henry IV, part 2
v. 19. King Henry V
v. 20. King Henry VI, part 1
v. 21. King Henry VI, part 2
v. 22. King Henry VI, part 3
v. 23. King Richard III
v. 24. King Henry VIII
v. 25. Troilus and Cressida
v. 26. Coriolanus
v. 27. Titus Andronicus
v. 28. Romeo and Juliet
v. 29. Timon of Athens
v. 30. Julius Caesar
v. 31. Macbeth
v. 23. Hamlet
v. 33. King Lear
v. 34. Othello
v. 35. Antony and Cleopatra
v. 36. Cymbeline
v. 37. Pericles
v. 38. Poems and sonnets
v. 39-40. Reprints [of early quartos] The merry wives of Windsor. The chronicle historie of Henry the Fift. The first part of the contention [King Henry VI, pt. 2] The true tragadie of Romeo and Iuliet. The tragicall historie of Hamlet.
v. 2. Two gentlemen of Verona
v. 3. Merry wives of Windsor
v. 4. Measure for measure
v. 5. Comedy of errors
v. 6. Much ado about nothing
v. 7. Love's labour's lost
v. 8. Midsummer night's dream
v. 9. Merchant of Venice
v. 10. As you like it
v. 11. Taming of the shrew
v. 12. All's well that ends well
v. 13. Twelfth night
v. 14. Winter's tale
v. 15. King John
v. 16. King Richard II
v. 17. King Henry IV, part 1
v. 18. King Henry IV, part 2
v. 19. King Henry V
v. 20. King Henry VI, part 1
v. 21. King Henry VI, part 2
v. 22. King Henry VI, part 3
v. 23. King Richard III
v. 24. King Henry VIII
v. 25. Troilus and Cressida
v. 26. Coriolanus
v. 27. Titus Andronicus
v. 28. Romeo and Juliet
v. 29. Timon of Athens
v. 30. Julius Caesar
v. 31. Macbeth
v. 23. Hamlet
v. 33. King Lear
v. 34. Othello
v. 35. Antony and Cleopatra
v. 36. Cymbeline
v. 37. Pericles
v. 38. Poems and sonnets
v. 39-40. Reprints [of early quartos] The merry wives of Windsor. The chronicle historie of Henry the Fift. The first part of the contention [King Henry VI, pt. 2] The true tragadie of Romeo and Iuliet. The tragicall historie of Hamlet.
Source of acquisition
271131 Acquired from Gilbert Bankual D9199 2018-04-25, email offer.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
PR2752 1893-1895 copy 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Publisher's cloth binding. Taped-in paper (v.1): From Library of Sir Sidney Lee - bought of W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., Cambridge, End. Aug. 3, 1926. Manuscript notes laid-in (v.3, 7, 12).
Folger accession
cs1552
Call number
PR2752 1893-1895 copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Publisher's cloth binding.
Folger accession
cs39
Call number
PR2752 1893-1895 copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: v.1, 7, 8, 34, 39, 40 only. Publisher's cloth binding.
Folger accession
cs39, 1922, 02.10.49
Call number
PR2752 1893-1895 copy 4 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: v.1, 40 only. Publisher's cloth binding.
Folger accession
cs1299, 1620
Folger-specific note
271131 This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. From dealer's description: "Red cloth cover Bound by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper) in early twentieth-century three-quarter royal blue crushed levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over blue cloth boards. Spines panelled and lettered in gilt with five gilt-dotted raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing. A near fine set. Partially unopened. “The Works of William Shakespeare (1863-6), edited by William George Clark, with at first W. Aldis Wright and later John Glover as collaborators, was published in nine volumes by Macmillan, but printed at the University Press, so that it became known as the Cambridge Shakespeare. This important edition was based on a ‘thorough collation of the four Folios and of all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, and of subsequent editions and commentaries’ (preface), so that in textual matters it constitutes a virtual variorum. Prefaces provide accounts of the early textual history of each of the works, and the volumes include the texts of first quartos of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, as well as the quartos relating to Henry V, The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI), and Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI). Clark and Wright used the Cambridge edition as the basis for the influential onevolume Globe Shakespeare. Both the Cambridge and the Globe editions were revised in 1891” (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare). Volume IV: Measure for Measure [blank]; [VI]; 128 - 3 replacement labels (copy heavily annotated by Emlyn Williams performing Angelo at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford (1955-1956), Volume IX: The Merchant of Venice (1894) VIII; 119 (+1) - 4 replacement labels (copy annotated in pencil by EmlynWilliams performing Shylock), Volume XII: All’s Well That Ends Well [blank]; [VI]; 139 (+1) - 4 replacement labels (illustrations mainly cut out from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine – one dating from 1892 — were loosely inserted by the 1st owner of the set, the Welsh Pre Raphaelite painter Arthur Trevethin Nowell), Volume XXXIV: Othello [blank]; VIII; 194 |9+2) - 2 replacement labels (copy heavily annotated by Emlyn Williams performing Iago at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford (1956). Acquired from Bakual D9199 2018-04-25, email offer. Purchase made possible by The Gladys Brooks Acquisitions Endowment Fund.