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Shakespear illustrated: or The novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded : collected and translated from the original authors. With critical remarks. In two volumes (v.2)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Shakespear illustrated: or The novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded : collected and translated from the original authors. With critical remarks. In two volumes (v.2)

Level: Item

Classmark: BC NCC/RAM

Creator(s): Lennox, Charlotte (1729-1804)

Additional creator(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) (Other); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) (Other); Millar, Andrew (1707-1768) (Other)

Related people: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William; Johnson, Samuel; Millar, Andrew

Publisher: Printed for A. Millar

Publication city: London

Date(s): MDCCLIII.-MDCCLIV

Language: English

Size and medium: 3 v (xii, [4], 292; [4], 274, [2]; [4], 308 p)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/295658

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003491369705181

Description

A 3rd. v. appeared separately in 1754.


Dedication to John, Earl of Orrery, by Samuel Johnson, to whom Malone ascribes many of the notes.


Advertisements on final leaf of v. 2.


With table of contents at the beginning of each volume.


Vol. 2 does not have:"In two volumes" at the end of the title; v. 3 has: "The third and last volume".


Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces.


The leaf conjugate with the contents leaf in v. 1 is blank.


Press figure on p. 62, vol. 2; variant: no press figure.


Indexed in: ESTC, T138281 = (v. 1-2); ESTC, T139076 = (v.3).

Additional description

Press figure on p.62

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