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London: Dryden Leach; J. and R. Tonson, 1768. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None. The first Capell edition of the collected plays of WIlliam Shakespeare, a smart set. Complete in ten volumes.The first edition of Shakespeare's works to be edited by Edward Capell.Capell's edition appeared around a similar time to Samuel Johnson's eight volume edition which relied upon the previous Warburton edition. Edward Capell was appalled by the undisciplined emendations of Hamner and Warburton's editions and this set took him over twenty years. He spent time collecting and collating scarce quarto and folio editions. He is the first editor of Shakespeare to explore Shakespeare's use of Holinshed's Chronicles and Sir Thomas North's Parallel Lives.This set contains;Volume I: The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor.Volume II: Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Much ado about Nothing, Love Labour's Lost.Volume III: A Midsummer Night's…

About Comedies, Histories and Tragedies

Comedies, Histories & Tragedies is a collection of William Shakespeare's plays, published in the First Folio in 1623, seven years after his death. Compiled by his colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell, it is considered one of the most influential books ever published in the English language.

Identifying the First Edition of Comedies, Histories and Tragedies

Look for the publishing details that match the original printers and the year 1623. Also checking the presence of certain textual errors characteristic of the first edition can help identify it.