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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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There is also an edition in quarto, dated 1631. 

 Of King Lear there is a third quarto of 1608, the 

 title-page of which agrees with that of the second. 



Collected Editions of Shakspeare's Flays. 



1. The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of 

 William Shakspeare. Edited by Charles Knight. Librar3' 

 Edition. 12 vols. 8vo. London, Charles Kuight & Co. 

 1842-4. 



2. The Works of William Shakspeare. The text 

 formed from an entirely new Collation of the Old Edi- 

 tions ; with the various Readings, Notes, a Life of the 

 Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. By J. 

 Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. 8 vols. 8vo. Loudon, Whit- 

 taker & Co. 1842-4. 



3. The Works of Shakspeare. Eevised from the best 

 Authorities ; with a Memoir and Essay on his Genius, by 

 Barry Cornwall : also. Annotations and Introductory Re- 

 marks on the Plays, by many distinguished Writers. 

 Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, from Designs by 

 Kenny Meadows. 3 vols, royal 8vo, London, Robert 

 Tyas & Co. 1843. 



4. Cabinet Edition of Shakspeare; from the Text of 

 the Editions by Chas. Knight ; including a Selection of 

 Explanatory Notes. 12 vols. 12mo. London, Charles 

 Knight & Co. 1845. 



5. Shakspeare's Plays ; with his Life. Illustrated with 

 many Hundred Woodcuts, executed by H. W. Hewet, 

 after Designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and others. 

 Edited by Guliau C. Verplanck, LL.D. With Critical 

 Introductions, Notes, &c., original and selected. 3 vols. 

 royal 8vo. New York, Harper Brothers. 1847. 



6. The Complete Works of Shakspeare, revised from 

 the Original Editions, with Historical and Analytical 

 Introductions to each Play ; also Notes explanatory and 

 critical, and a Life of the Poet. By J. O. Halliwell, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.S.A., &c., and other eminent Commentators. 

 Elegantly and appropriately illustrated by Portraits en- 

 graved on Steel, from Daguerrotypes of the greatest and 

 most Intellectual Actors of the Age, taken in the Embo- 

 diment of the varied and life-like Characters of our great 

 National Poet. 4 vols, royal 8vo. London and New 

 York. John Tallis & Co. 1850-1. 



7. Shakspeare's Dramatic Works. The Lansdowne 

 Edition. The Text carefully compared with the early 

 and best Impressions. With a Glossary. 1 vol. crown 

 Svo. London, White. 1851. 



(This edition is printed in a novel and convenient 

 style, the names of the characters being put at full length, 

 in the centre of the text, in red ink.) 



8. Th« Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of 

 William Shakspeare. Edited by Charles Knight. (The 

 National Edition.) 8 vols. Svo. London, Charles 

 Knight. 1851. 



(This edition includes the " Studies of Shakspeare, 

 forming a Companion Volume to every Edition of the 

 Text, by Charles Knight.") 



9. Shakspeare's Plays and Poems, with Notes, Life, &c. 

 By William Hazlitt. 5 vols. fcap. Svo. London, Rout- 

 ledge & Co. 1851. 



10. The Plays of Shakspeare. Edited by S. Phelps. 

 Illustrated bv Nicholson. 2 vols, royal Svo. London, 

 Willoughby." 1851, 



11. The Works of Shakspeare. The Text carefully re- 

 stored a,ccording to the First Editions; with Introduc- 

 tions, Notes, original and selected, and a Life of the Poet. 

 By the Rev. H. N. Hudson, A.M. 11 vols. fcap. Svo. 

 Boston and Cambridge, James Munroe & Co. 1851-6. 



12. Ttfe Companion Shakspeare. Edited by Charles 

 Knight. 6 vols, crown Svo. London, George Routledge 

 &Co. 1852-7. 



13. The Play« of Shakspeare. The Text regulated by 

 the Old Copies, and by the recently discovered Folio of 

 1632, containing early Manuscript Emendations. Edited 

 by J. PajTie Collier, Esq., F.S.A. 1 vol. royal 8vo. Lon- 

 don, Whittaker & Co. 1853. 



14. The Works of William Shakspeare, the Text formed 

 from a new Collation of the Early Editions: to which 

 are added all the Original Novels and Tales, on which 

 the Plays are founded; copious Archseological Annota- 

 tions on each Play ; an Essay on the Formation of the 

 Text; and a Life of the Poet. By James 0. Halliwell, 

 Esq., F.R.S., &c., &c. Illustrations and Wood-engravings 

 by F. W. Fairholt, Esq., F.S.A. Folio, — vols. London, 

 printed for the Editor by J. E. Adlard, 1853— 



(This truly magnificent work is in course of publica- 

 tion.) 



15. The Comedies of William Shakspeare. Edited, 

 with Introductions and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, 

 by James 0. Halliwell, Esq. Reprinted from the Ameri- 

 can Edition. 1 vol. royal Svo. London. 



(Printed for private circulation only.) 



16. The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare. The 

 Text carefully revised, with Notes by Samuel Weller 

 Singer, F.S.A. The Life of the Poet, and Essays on the 

 Plays, by Wm. Watkiss Lloyd, M.R.S.L., &c. 10 vols, 

 fcap. Svo. London, Bell & Daldy. 1856. 



17. The Stratford Shakspeare. Edited by Charles 

 Knight. 10 vols. fcap. Svo. London, Thomas Hodgson. 

 1836. 



18. The Works of William Shakspeare, Dramatic and 

 Poetical, with an Account of his Life and Writings. 

 Knight's Cabinet Edition, with additional Notes. 12 vols. 

 12mo. Edinburghand London, W.&R. Chambers. 1856-7. 



19. The Works of William Shakspeare. The Text re- 

 vised by the Rev, Alexander Dyce. 6 vols. Svo. Lon- 

 don, Edward Moxon. 1857. 



20. The Works of William Shakspeare. The Plays 

 edited from the Folio of 1623, with various Readings 

 from all the Editions and all the Commentators, Notes, 

 Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, 

 an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English 

 Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay upon his 

 Genius, by Richard Grant White. — vols, crown Svo., and 

 large paper Svo. Boston : Little, Brown, & Co. 1857. 



(In course of publication.) 



21. Shakspeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and 

 Poems. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. The 

 Second Edition. 6 vols. Svo. London, Whittaker & Co. 

 1858. 



(A supplemental volume to this edition may be ex- 

 pected, containing the doubtful plays.) 



22. The Plays of Shakspeare. Edited by Howard 

 Staunton. The Illustrations by John Gilbert. Engraved 

 by the Brothers Dalziel. Royal Svo. London and New 

 York, Routledge & Co, 1858, 



(In course of publication.) 



Commentaries, Essays, ^c. 



1. Retzsch's Outline Illustrations to Shakspeare's 

 Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Tempest, 

 Othello, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Henry VI. Ob- 

 long 4to. London, Williams & Norgate. 1838 — 45.' 



2. A New Edition complete in One Volume, with 



Explanatory Text in German and English, London, 

 Williams & Norgate. 1847, 



3. The Philosophy of Shakspeare, by M. H. Rankin. 

 12mo. London, Whittaker & Co. 1841. 



4. Remarks on some of the Characters of Shakspeare, 

 by Thomas Whately, Esq. Edited by Richard Whately, 

 D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. 12mo. London, J. W. 

 Parker. 1839. 



5. Shakspeare Illustrated in a Series of Landscape and 



