The complete works of William Shakespeare : the text and order of the first folio with quarto variants & a choice of modern readings noted marginally : to which are added Pericles and the first quartos of six of the plays with three plays of doubtful authorship : also the poems according to the original quartos and octavos : the Nonesuch text established MCMXXIX by Herbert Farjeon, with a new introduction by Ivor Brown.
Alternate Title(s):
New Nonesuch Shakespeare
Published / Created:
London : The Nonesuch Press, 66 Chandos Place ; New York, Random House Inc., MCMLIII [1953]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Half title: The new Nonesuch Shakespeare.
Contents:
v. 1. Comedies, with the prefatory matter from the first folio, the note on the text by H. Farjeon -- v. 2. Histories, and Troylus and Cressida, according to its placing in the first folio -- v. 3. Tragedies, and Pericles, with three plays of doubtful authorship, namely: Two noble kinsmen, Edward III, Sir Thomas Moore -- v. 4. Poems: Venus and Adonis, The rape of Lucrece, The sonnets. A lovers complaint, The passionate pilgrime, Sonnets to sundry notes of musicke, The phoenix and turtle.
Subject Terms:
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.