Added engraved t.p., illustrated (wanting in later printing)

Also issued with 38 plates engraved for Pickering's "miniature classics" edition, issued under title The plays of Shakespeare : in nine volumes (1825)

Printed in "diamond" type (4 1/2 point). Cf. DeVinne, T.L. The practice of typography. 1900, p. 67-68

Frontispiece port. of Shakespeare engraved by Augustus Fox from a painting by T. Stothard, after Droeshout; dated 1825

A later printing has a different frontispiece port. with facsim. signature, engraved by H. Robinson; dated 1832

Some copies on India paper and/or on large paper. Cf. Lowndes and Jaggard

Some copies have "Sketch of the life of Shakespeare, by Alexander Chalmers, A.M." ([v]-xii p.) inserted at beginning, followed by contents for a different ed. including the poems. Cf. Jaggard

Glossary: p. [769]-783

One of 50 copies printed on India paper

Lowndes

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare

Keynes, G. Pickering (rev. ed.)

A set of the plates, without the text, may be found on shelf-number **No.3 in **G.3952.18

The complete edition, text and plates, may be found on shelf-number **G.4045.1

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