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Large paper edition

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 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.

v. 1. Memoir. Literary period. The symbolic system -- v. 2. Interpretation and paraphrased commentary. Blake the artist. Some references -- v. 3. The books.

"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.

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

v. 1. The life of Mr. Edmund Spenser. An essay on allegorical poetry. With remarks on the writings of Mr. Edmund Spenser. A glossary explaining the old and obscure words in Spenser's works. The fairy queen, book I.
v. 2-3. The fairy queen, books II-

Pathfinder ed.