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Title The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Ten Volumes. With The Corrections And Illustrations Of Various Commentators; To Which Are Added Notes By Samuel Johnson And George Steevens., 1
Author William Shakespeare
Editor George Steevens
Year 1778
Location London
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
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Prefaces, &c.
The Plays of Shakespeare

PLAYS, &c. contained in each Volume.
CONTENTS of VOL. I.


Head of Shakespeare, from an Engraving by Martin Droeshout, before the Folio 1623.
Preface by Johnson.
Advertisement by Steevens.
Extract from the Gul’s Hornbook, by Decker, concerning our ancient theatres, &c.
The Globe Theatre, from the Long Antwerp View of London in the Pepysian Library.
Catalogue of the earliest Translations from Greek and Roman Classicks.
Appendix to Colman’s Terence, relative to the Learning of Shakespeare.
Dedication by Heminge and Condell to the Folio, 1623.
Preface by the same.
——— by Pope.
——— by Theobald.
——— by Hanmer.
——— by Warburton.
Advertisement prefixed to Steevens’s Twenty Plays, &c.
Rowe’s Life of Shakespeare.
Ms. in the Herald’s Office.
Licences to Shakespeare, &c. from Rymer’s Fædera, and his Mss.
Head of Shakespeare from that by Marshall, prefixed to the Poems 1640.
Fac-Simile of Shakespeare’s Hand-writing.
Anecdotes of Shakespeare, from Oldys’s Mss. &c.
Farmer’s Account of a Pamphlet falsely imputed to Shakespeare; together with Remarks on a passage in Warton’s Life of Dr. Bathurst.
Observations on Passages in the Preface to the French Translation of Shakespeare.

Registers of the Shakespeare Family.
Grainger’s Catalogue of the Portraits of Shakespeare.
Ancient and Modern Commendatory Verses on Shakespeare, with Notes, &c.
List of Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays, both ancient and modern;—of Plays alter’d from him;—of detach’d Pieces of Criticism, &c.
Entries of Shakespeare’s Plays on the Books of the Stationers’ Company.
An Attempt to ascertain the Order in which the Plays attributed to Shakespeare were written, by Edmond Malone, Esq.