[Shakespeare, William / Malone, Edmond].

The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare [sic], in Sixteen Volumes [15 Volumes only since Volume 9 is missing]. Collated verbatim with the most authentic copies, and revised: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are added, An Essay on the Chronological Order of his Plays; An Essay Relative to Shakspeare and [Ben] Jonson; A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI. An Historical Account of the English Stage, And Notes; by Edmond Malone.

15 Volumes (of 16). Dublin, Printed for John Exshaw, No.98, Grafton-Street, 1794. Octavo. Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Contents and Pagination of this rare Set of Edmond Malone’s Dublin Edition of Shakespeare:

Volume I:

Pagination: [3], LIV, 344 pages [List of Illustrations in the set is mentioned in Volume I: including Directions to the Binder for the 8 engravings in Volumes I, II, VIII and XV (all Illustrations present)].

Volume I includes the following Illustrations:

1. Frontispiece-Portrait of Shakespeare, engraved by Henry Brocas, from a Drawing by the same size made by Ozias Humphrey from the original Picture in the Collection of his Grace, the Duke of Chandry.
2. The Heads of Dr.Samuel Johnson, Dr.Richard Farmer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Thomas Edwards
3. Fold-out-plate of Shakspeare’s House: “New Place – From a Drawing on the Margin of an Ancient Survey made by the Order of Sir George Carew, afterwards Baron Carew of Clopton and Earl of Titness & found at Clopton near Stratford upon Avon in 1786”
4. The fac-simile of the hand writing of Shakspeare and the Witness to his Will
5. The fac-simile of Shakspeare’s hand-writing, with a label and seal, to face his Mortgage

Content of Volume I:
Preface by [Samuel] Johnson / Advertisement by [George] Steevens [Shakespearean Commentator] / Catalogue of the earliest Translations from the Greek and Roman Classics by [George] Steevens / Preface by [Alexander] Pope / Dedication by Heminge [John Heminges] and Condell [Henry Condell] to the Folio, 1623 / Preface by the same [John Heminges and Henry Condell] / Rowe’s List of Shakspeare, augmented by Malone / Anecdotes of Shakspeare, from Oldys’s Mss. &c. / Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of the Shakspeare family; extracted from the Registers of Stratford-upon-Avon, by Malone / Shakspeare’s Coat of Arms / Shakspeare’s Will, (from the original), with notes by Malone / Shakspeare’s Mortgage / Ancient and Modern Commendatory Verses on Shakspeare / List of the most authentick ancient Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays / List of the modern Editions of his plays / List of the most authentick ancient Editions of Shakspeare’s Poems / Dramatick Pieces on which Plays were formed by Shakspeare / List of Plays altered from Shakspeare / Detached Pieces of Criticism on Shakspeare, his Editors, &c. / Entries of Shakspeare’s Plays and Poems in the Stationers’ Registers; extracted by [George] Steevens / Essay on the Order of Time in which the Plays of Shakspeare were written; – by Malone //

Volume II: 269 pages / An Historical Account of the rise and progress of the English Stage; of the oeconomy and usages of our Ancient Theatres; and of the Original Actors in Shakspeare’s Plays; – by Malone.

Volume II includes the following Illustration: “Portrait of John Lowin, Comedian, 1640” Engraved by Henry Brocas from an origial Picture in the Ashmole Museum, Oxford″

Volume III: 439 pages / Containing: Tempest / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Merry Wives of Windsor / Measure for Measure /

Volume IV: 394 pages / Containing: Comedy of Errors / Much Ado About Nothing / Love’s Labour’s Lost / Midsummer-Night’s Dream /

Volume V: 479 pages / Containing: Merchant of Venice / As You Like It / Taming of the Shrew / All’s Well That Ends Well /

Volume VI: 435 pages / Containing: Pericles Prince of Tyre / Twelfth-Night, or What you Will / Winter’s Tale /

Volume VII: 404 pages / Containing: Macbeth / King John / King Richard II. /

Volume VIII: 517 pages / Containing: King Henry IV. Part First / King Henry IV. Part Second / and King Henry V.
Including a Fold-Out-Plate of “Morris Dancers – From an Ancient Window on the House of George Tollet Esq. at Betley in Staffordshire″

Volume IX: Missing ! /

Volume X: 164 pages / [2], 277 pages: Containing: King Richard III. (164 pages) / King Henry VIII. and Coriolanus: [2], 277 pages /

Volume XI: 276 pages (of which one layer is loosened (pages 11 – 14) / Containing: Julius Caesar / Anthony and Cleopatra /

Volume XII: 128 pages / 159 pages: Containing: Timon of Athens (128 pages) / Troilus and Cressida (159 pages) /

Volume XIII: 363 pages / Containing: Cymbeline / King Lear /

Volume XIV: 415 pages / Containing: Romeo and Juliet / Hamlet /

Volume XV: 420 pages / Containing: Venus and Adonis / Rape of Lucrece / Othello, The Moore of Venice /

Includes the following illustration: Portrait of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Engraved by A. Ferguso from an original Picture in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford /

Volume XVI: 389 pages plus 36 unnumbered pages of “An Alphabetical Index to serve the purpoes of A Glossary to the Works of Shakspeare and the contemporary Dramatick Writers : containing References to all the Words and Phrases in his Plays and Poems, which have been explained or illustrated in the preceding Notes” //

• Keywords: 18th Century – Rare · English Literature – Rare · English Literature of the 18th Century · Malone, Edmond · Plays · Shakespeare · Shakespeare – Collection
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31397AB

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