THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Plays, Comedies, Histories, Tragedies)

  • Full-Leather
  • London: J. Tonson, 1734
By Shakespeare, William
London: J. Tonson, 1734. Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo. Frontispiece by P. Fourdrinier, 71pp.; bound to style in recent paneled leather, single gilt rule border, spine lettering gilt. A lovely copy. No separate edition of this play appeared until the 1734 publication of competing editions by Jacob Tonson and Robert Walker, who both also issued it in sets of Shakepeare's complete works. The Tonson edition offered here contains a piracy notice against Walker on page [3]. Jaggard, page 483.


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