The Works of Shakespear in eight Volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton.... London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman and T. Shewell, H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. Brindley, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, R. Wellington, E. New, and B. Dod. MDCCXLVII.
8 vols. 8o. (8 × 5). P. 8-15.
Some copies of the first volume contain an engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Vertue.
Mr William Shakespeare his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo: with an Introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, Notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire.
Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit, et omneis
Præstinxit, stellas exortus uti æthereus Sol.
Lucr. Lib. 3. l. 1056.
London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson in the strand.
10 vols. 8o. (7 × 41⁄2). S. 40-49.
Epistle dedicatory to the Duke of Grafton, signed Edward Capell, and dated, Essex Court in the Temple. Nov. 9, 1767. The ten volumes appeared in 1767 and 1768. The additional volumes containing critical matter were not published till 1779-80, after the collection had been given to the College. In this copy the metre is marked throughout in the editor's hand.
Antony and Cleopatra: an historical Play, written by William Shakespeare: fitted for the Stage by abridging only; and now acted, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by his Majesty's Servants.