The poems and plays William Shakespeare : with a life of the author, and a selection of notes, critical, historical, explantory, and glossarial; selected from the editions of Rowe, Pope, Johnson and Steevens, Malone, and other eminent commentators: to wich are added, the prefaces of Rowe, Pope and Johnson: in eight volumes / By W. Shakespeare, engraved by C. Heath, C. Rolls etc.

Cont.: 1.Life of Shakespeare.- 2.Shakspeare's will.- 3.Chronological order of his plays.- 4.Editions of his works.- 5.Plays ascribed to Shakspeare.- 6.Account of the several portraits.- 7.Rowe's preface.- 8.Pope's preface.- 9.Johnson's preface.- 10.Venus and Adonis.- 11.Rape of Lucrece.- 12.Sonnets.- 13.Passionate pilgrim.- 14.A lover's complaint.- 15.Tempest.- 16.Two gentlemen of Verona.- 17.Merry wives of Windsor (vol. 1)

Cont.: 1.King Lear.- 2.Romeo and Juliet.- 3.Hamlet.- 4.Othello (vol. 8)

vol. 1 (1833; clxxxi, 233 p.: ill.) vol. 8 (1833; 470 p.: ill.)