The plays of William Shakspeare. Volume the first; containing Life...Preface...Farmer's Essay...Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona.

People / Organizations

• William Shakespeare (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; E. Harding, Pall-Mall; and J. Wright, Piccadilly, 1800.

Publication year

1800-1800

ESTC No.

T2914

Grub Street ID

260587

Description

12v.,plates : port. ; 8⁰

Note

Each play, published separately between 1798 and 1799, with separate titlepage headed 'Harding's edition', pagination and register; the plays being collected in twelve volumes, each volume with a collective titlepage dated 1800.

The separate titlepages for 1798 and part of 1799 bear the imprint: published by E. Harding; J. Wright; G. Sael; and Vernor and Hood; and the separate titlepages for the later part of 1799 bear the imprint: printed by T. Bensley. Published by E. Harding; J. Wright; G. Sael; and Vernor and Hood.

A prospectus, 'Harding's Shakespeare, with one hundred and eighty engravings, .. ', was issued in [1798].