1803-1807 The Plays of William Shakespeare

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Nine volumes of ten. Volume I is dated 1807, printed by T. Davison for Peter Wynne and Son and contains: The Life of Shakspeare; Observations on Each Play; The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure. Volumes II, III and IV are dated 1803 and printed by T. Bensley for Wynne and Scholey and J. Wallis and contain: Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Nights Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, Merchant of Venice and As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Winter's Tale, Comedy of Errors and Macbeth; King John; King Richard II, King Henry IV Parts I and II and King Henry V. Volumes V-VIII are dated 1804 and printed by T. Bensley for Wynne and Scholey and J. Wallis and contain: King Henry VI Parts I, II and III and King Richard III; King Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens and Coriolanus; Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Titus Andronicus and Pericles; King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello. Volume X is dated 1805, printed by T. Bensley for James Wallis and is 'illustrated by the prefaces and annotations of the various commentators and contains: Annotations on all thirty-seven plays listed above with a contents page to front. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns.