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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

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

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…

Contains 20 plays, expurgated by Thomas Bowdler

Edited by James Boswell, the younger, to whom Malone left his materials for a new edition (Malone's first edition appeared in 1790 in 10 vols.) ; "'Boswell's Malone' is generally known as the 'third variorum' edition of Shakespeare." cf. Dict. nat.…

v.1-2. Comedies.
v.3-4. Histories.
v.5-6. Tragedies.
v.7. Doubtful plays.
v.8. Biography.

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. l854.
v.3. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. 1854.
v.4. Much ado…

"The Cambridge text and the Globe glossary are used in this edition through the courtesy of the Messrs. Macmillan"