{"id":3040,"date":"2016-04-07T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:47:28","slug":"aprils-book-of-the-month-the-works-of-shakespear-in-six-volumes-carefully-revised-and-corrected-by-the-former-editions-and-adorned-with-sculptures-designed-and-executed-by-the-best-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/04\/07\/aprils-book-of-the-month-the-works-of-shakespear-in-six-volumes-carefully-revised-and-corrected-by-the-former-editions-and-adorned-with-sculptures-designed-and-executed-by-the-best-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"April’s Book of the Month: The works of Shakespear : in six volumes. Carefully revised and corrected by the former editions, and adorned with sculptures designed and executed by the best hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<\/em>, in The works of Shakespear :\u00a0in six volumes. Carefully revised and corrected by the former editions, and adorned with sculptures designed and executed by the best hands.<\/strong>\u00a0 Oxford, :\u00a0Printed at the Theatre.\u00a01744.<\/p>\n

To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death (April 23, 2016), a six volume set of William Shakespeare’s works has been selected as the ‘Book of the Month” for April.<\/p>\n

The above title page is found only in volume 1;\u00a0the other volumes, 2-6 have title: The works of Mr. William Shakespear … 1743[-44]. \u00a0The latter title appears also in v. 1 but in the form of an\u00a0added title page.\u00a0 This set was edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer, and it followed Pope\u2019s edition of 1723-25.\u00a0\u00a0 Each volumes contains the Chandos portrait, views of the Westminster abbey monument and Stratford bust (the latter altered as in Pope\u2019s edition), and an engraving to each play.\u00a0 The engravings were all done by\u00a0Gravelot after Hayman’s work.<\/p>\n

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The contents of each volume is as follows:\u00a0 v. 1. Preface. Mr. Pope\u2019s preface. Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare, by N. Rowe. Comedies: The tempest. A midsummer night\u2019s dream. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing.–v. 2. Comedies: The merchant of Venice. Love\u2019s labour\u2019s lost. As you like it. The taming of the shrew. All\u2019s well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, What you will. The winter\u2019s tale.–v. 3. Historical plays: King Lear. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, pt. I-II. King Henry V.–v. 4. Historical plays: King Henry VI, pt. I-III. King Richard III. King Henry VIII.–v. 5. Tragedies: Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth.–v. 6. Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary.<\/p>\n

This set is no. 847 in a collection designated as Max Reinhardt.\u00a0 Each book has a full mottled leather binding.\u00a0 There are gilt tooled panels on the front and back covers or boards.\u00a0 The spine has six raised bands\u00a0with gilt decorated compartments.\u00a0 Each volume has a\u00a0brown morocco spine leather piece with the series title stamped in gilt.\u00a0 The decorative endpapers are marbled with\u00a0a French Curl on Wide Combed pattern.\u00a0 All the papers\u00a0edges are decorated with a red sprinkled pattern.<\/p>\n

The works of Shakespear : in six volumes.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>The Max<\/span>\u00a0Reinhardt\u00a0Library Collection, PR2752\u00a0.H3 1744\u00a0v.1-6.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0set is housed in the Special Collections department of the Binghamton University Libraries, and available to be viewed by all.\u00a0 The department is open to the public,\u00a0 \u00a0Monday – Friday from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, and by appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in The works of Shakespear :\u00a0in six volumes. Carefully revised and corrected by the former editions, and adorned with sculptures designed and executed by the best hands.\u00a0 Oxford, :\u00a0Printed at the Theatre.\u00a01744. To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death (April 23, 2016), a six volume set of William Shakespeare’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}