1825 The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare in Eleven Volumes

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

This is a complete eleven volume set of The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, published by William Pickering in 1825. This is the first Pickering edition of the complete works with a wreath illustration to the title pages. 

The first volume is illustrated with a frontispiece of William Shakespeare and includes a preface to Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson. The first volume includes The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night.  

Volume II contains Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer-Night's Dream and Love's Labour's Lost. 

Volume III contains Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well and Taming of the Shrew. 

Volume IV contains Winter's Tale, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and King John. 

Volume V contains King Richard, First Part of King Henry IV, Second Part of King Henry IV and King Henry V.

Volume VI contains First Part of King Henry VI, Second Part of King Henry VI, Third Part of King Henry VI and King Richard III. 

Volume VII contains King Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens and Julius Caesar.

Volume VIII contains Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline.

Volume IX contains Titus and Andronicus, Pericles, Prince of Tyre and King Lear. 

Volume X contains Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Prince of Demark and Othello, The Moor Of Venice.

Volume XI contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Sonnets, The Passionate Pilgrim and A Lover's Complaint.   

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist and this is a beautiful collection of his comedies, histories, tragedies and poems. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages and altogether wrote thirty-eight plays, two narrative poems, one hundred and fifty-four sonnets and a variety of other poems.