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The American Shakespeare, from the original text: carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier, with historical and critical introduction and notes to each play, and a life of the great dramatist.
- Title
- The American Shakespeare, from the original text: carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier, with historical and critical introduction and notes to each play, and a life of the great dramatist. By Charles Knight. Illustrated with new ... steel engravings, chiefly portraits in character of celebrated American actors, drawn from life, expressly for this edition ...
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Publication
- New York, Henry J. Johnson [c1878-1879]
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| v. 3 | Text | Request in advance | *NCM (Knight) (Shakespeare, W. Collected works. [1878-79] American Shakespeare) v. 3 | Offsite | |
| v. 2 | Text | Request in advance | *NCM (Knight) (Shakespeare, W. Collected works. [1878-79] American Shakespeare) v. 2 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | *NCM (Knight) (Shakespeare, W. Collected works. [1878-79] American Shakespeare) v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- 3 v. fronts., plates; 28 cm.
- Note
- Added title-page engraved; plates dated 1879. Originally issued as 56 semi-monthly parts. Paged continuously, with double pagination at foot of pages, the first at center (1468 pages) includes the Preface to [v. 1] and the abridgment of Knight's Life of William Shakespeare; the second paging (1725 pages) under the outside columns includes the introductions to the plays and the notes; there are also two sets of signatures, the first in smaller type in fours, the second, larger, in eights (this latter set begins with "22" at p. 337 or 407 respectively, of the outer pagination)
- Contents
- [v. 1] Comedies.-- [v. 2] Historical plays.-- [v. 3] Tragedies [and Poems]
- Call Number
- *NCM (Knight) (Shakespeare, W. Collected works. [1878-79] American Shakespeare)
- LCCN
- a 27000547
- OCLC
- 9123097
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Title
- The American Shakespeare, from the original text: carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier, with historical and critical introduction and notes to each play, and a life of the great dramatist. By Charles Knight. Illustrated with new ... steel engravings, chiefly portraits in character of celebrated American actors, drawn from life, expressly for this edition ...
- Imprint
- New York, Henry J. Johnson [c1878-1879]
- Added Author
- Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889.Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883.
- Research Call Number
- *NCM (Knight) (Shakespeare, W. Collected works. [1878-79] American Shakespeare)