Gallerie zu Shakspeare's dramatischen Werken (v.4)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Gallerie zu Shakspeare's dramatischen Werken (v.4)
Other titles: Outlines to Shakspeare
Classmark: Stephen Chaplin Collection/SHA
Creator(s): Retzsch, Moritz (1779-1857)
Additional creator(s): Fleischer, Ernst Gerhard (1799-1832) (Other); Miltitz, Carl Borromäus Alexander Stephan von (1781-1845) (Other); Ulrici, Hermann (1806-1884) (Other); Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853) (Other); Böttiger, Carl August (1760-1835) (Other)
Related people: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Fleischer, Ernst Gerhard; Miltitz, Carl Borromäus Alexander Stephan von; Ulrici, Hermann; Shoberl, Frederic; Böttiger, Carl August
Publisher: [Fleischer]
Publication city: Leipzig und London
Date(s): 1828-1846
Language: German
Size and medium: 8 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/611686
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003688549705181
Description
The first plate in each sequence is the same: Shakespeare's apotheosis; plates and much text printed sideways.
Added title-page in English: "Retzsch's outlines to Shakspeare. Genuine original edition. Leipsic: Published by Ernest Fleischer... London: Sold by Treuttel & Wuertz, Treuttel Jun. & Richter" (varies); some volumes have added engraved dedications.
Each plate accompanied by corresponding text in English, German, French, and Italian (Hamlet lacks Italian).
Vol. designation on German title-page: Lieferung; on English title-page: series; comments for v. 1-2 in German, for v. 3-8 in German and English.
Added title-page title: Outlines to Shakspeare.
Contents:v. 1. Hamlet & v. 2. Macbeth/ [comments by C.A. Böttiger] -v. 3. Romeo & Juliet & v. 4. King Lear / [comments by C.B. von Miltitz & F. Shoberl] --v. 5. The Tempest & v. 6. Othello & v. 7. Merry wives of Windsor & v. 8. King Henry IV, pts. 1-2 / [comments by H. Ulrici].