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The family Shakspeare : in ten volumes : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family

Print Book, English, 1825
The fourth edition View all formats and editions
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, London, 1825
Booksellers' advertisements England London 19th century
10 v. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
10358249
v. 1. Preface to the fourth edition. Preface to the first edition. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello. Postscript to the fourth edition of The family Shakspeare
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Publisher's printed spine labels read: Bowdler's Family Shakspeare in ten volumes
Each volume with a vol. half-title and a vol. title page, each play with a divisional title
Postscript to the fourth ed. (v. 10)--includes biographical and bibliographical account of the Bowdler family
Vol. 1 with advertisements for works published by Bowdler, preceding the Tempest; v. 10 with 2 final leaves of bookseller's advertisements for Longman, [etc.]