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v.1. Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor.
v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.
v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the…

Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer, who followed Pope's edition of 1723-25

In 1728 Tonson published an 8 volume set. A ninth volume was published that year to supplement the set. The tenth volume published by J. and J. Knapton, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Tonson and 10 others, is intended to accompany those 9 volumes

The frontispiece of each volume is a portrait of Shakespeare engraved by M: V. Dr. Gucht ; The 1st edition after the four folios; the text based upon the fourth folio.

Folio, edged gilt in early 19th century russia; rebacked with original spine laid down; the portrait is in modern facsimile, the title page in 18th century type facsimile; part of dedication leaf and final leaf torn, but rest untouched

Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen and Robert Allot, 1632.

This facsimile is an ideal copy in which each page represents the best page selected from one of the 29 most satisfactory copies of the 80 copies in the Folger Shakespeare Library

Collotype reprint of the so-called Devonshire copy, which has title: The tragicall historie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect…

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