Accession number
PML 146483-91
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare printing office, for John and Josiah Boydell, George and William Nicoll, from the types of W. Martin, 1802.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Edition is based upon the 1790 Malone and 1793 Steevens editions.
Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791-1802 [i.e. 1803?].
T.p.'s and half t.p.'s in each volume; 2 frontispiece portrait plates of Shakespeare in v. 1; dedication leaf in v. 1 dated 1803 and signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: C.N.
Plays are paginated separately, have no signatures, and are bound in no designated order; each play has colophon reading: From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & Co.
No table of contents or list of plates is present, but the plates correspond with the list given in "Boydell's Graphic illustrations of the dramatic works of Shakspeare," a separate issue of the plates, except that the latter lacks a variation of the first plate in Richard III (Gloster and the princes) while it has in addition (as frontispiece) "Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy, " a portrait of John Boydell, a variation of Juliet's supposed death, and a second plate in Titus Adronicus (Lavinia nursing her young nephew, by T. Kirk).
Illustrated with 96 engraved plates, dated 1791-1803, by James Parker, Anker Smith, James Heath, etc., after R. Smirke, W. Hamilton, R. Westall, F. Wheatley, and James Northcote, with a few designs contributed by Reynolds, Opie, Stothard, and others.
Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791-1802 [i.e. 1803?].
T.p.'s and half t.p.'s in each volume; 2 frontispiece portrait plates of Shakespeare in v. 1; dedication leaf in v. 1 dated 1803 and signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: C.N.
Plays are paginated separately, have no signatures, and are bound in no designated order; each play has colophon reading: From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & Co.
No table of contents or list of plates is present, but the plates correspond with the list given in "Boydell's Graphic illustrations of the dramatic works of Shakspeare," a separate issue of the plates, except that the latter lacks a variation of the first plate in Richard III (Gloster and the princes) while it has in addition (as frontispiece) "Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy, " a portrait of John Boydell, a variation of Juliet's supposed death, and a second plate in Titus Adronicus (Lavinia nursing her young nephew, by T. Kirk).
Illustrated with 96 engraved plates, dated 1791-1803, by James Parker, Anker Smith, James Heath, etc., after R. Smirke, W. Hamilton, R. Westall, F. Wheatley, and James Northcote, with a few designs contributed by Reynolds, Opie, Stothard, and others.
Description
9 v. : ill. (engraving), ports. ; 45 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Alexander Cuninghame; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Russia tooled in gilt.
Classification
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