Full title: The plays of William Shakspeare. : In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. / To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition , Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley’s collection of old plays..
Author(s): William Shakespeare (1564-1616); Samuel Johnson; George Steevens
Location:
The University of Manchester Library; Manchester, England
Shelf mark:
22347
Publication information:
London: Printed [by H. Baldwin] for T. Longman, B. Law and Son, C. Dilly, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Vernor, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray, R. Baldwin, H. L. Gardner, J. Sewell, J. Nicholls, F. and C. Rivington, W. Goldsmith, T. Payne, Jun. S. Hayes, R. Faulder, W. Lowndes, B. and J. White, G. and T. Wilkie, J. and J. Taylor, Scatcherd and Whitaker, T. and J. Egerton, E. Newbery, J. Barker, J. Edwards, Ogilvy and Speare, J. Cuthell, J. Lackington, J. Deighton, and W. Miller, M.DCC. XCIII.. [1793].
Notes:
UML copy at 22347: From the collection of George Steevens (1736-1800), with manuscript notes in his own hand, bequeathed to Earl Spencer, see MS notes pasted on front fly-leaf recto: [1]: On my death, I request my executriz, Miss Elizabeth Steevens, to send these eighteen volumes of the edition of Shakespeare 1793 to the Right Hon.ble Earl Spencer, first Lord of the Admiralty. — They are, in this manner, bequeathed to his Lordship (as a sincere though inconsiderable mark of regard by George Steevens. Hampstead Heath Aug. 30. 1785: [2]: To Miss Steevens. The long deal box in which these books returned from the binder, will be found in my powdering room. When they are packed, a single leaf of tissue paper should be put between each of the volumes.
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