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The plays of William Shakspeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq. : with glossarial notes : in ten volumes

Print Book, English, 1803
Printed for J. Johnson; R. Baldwin; H.L. Gardner; W., J. and J. Richardson; J. Nichols and Son; F., C., and J. Rivington; T. Payne ; R. Faulder; G. and J. Robinson; W. Lowndes; G. Wilkie; J. Scatcherd; T. Egerton; J. Walker; W. Clarke and Son; J. Barker and Son; D. Ogilvy and Son; Cuthell and Martin; R. Lea; P. M'queen; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen and Co.; T. Kay; J. Deighton; J. White; W. Miller; Vernor and Hood; D. Walker; B. Crosby and Co.; Longman and Rees; Cadell and Davies; T. Hurst; J. Harding; R.H. Evans; I. [i.e. S.] Bagster; J. Mawman; Blacks and Parry; R. Bent; J. Badcock; J. Asperne; and T. Ostell, London, 1803
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10 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 19 cm (8vo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Printer information from volumes 1 to 3, 7, and 8 colophons; "London" follows address. In volumes 4, 5, and 9, colophons read "C. Baldwin, printer"; in volumes 6 and 10, colophons read "C. and R. Baldwin, printers."
Each volume with a volume title page; each play with a divisional title page
With Some account of the life, &c. by Rowe, and Johnson's preface in v. 1