Shakespeare, William

Othello, the Moor of Venice. John Darby for Mary Poulson, 1724; Julius Caesar. For J. Tonson and J. Darby, A. Bettesworth and F. Clay, 1729; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. For W. Feales, 1737, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece; The First Part of Henry IV. For J. Tonson, 1734; The Second Part of Henry IV. For J. Tonson, 1734, engraved frontispiece; The Merry Wives of Windsor. Dublin: for A. Bradley, 1730, first Irish edition, p.50 misnumbered 59; six works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, spine lettered in gilt

[Merry Wives of Windsor:] Jaggard p.405, ESTC N34730 (five copies only, all in America)

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No play of Shakespeare’s is recorded as having been printed in Dublin before 1721 (this was Othello, printed by George Grierson, see Jaggard p.423).