1803
Shakespeare, William. COLLECTION OF PRINTS | FROM PICTURES
PAINTED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ILLUSTRATING | THE |
DRAMATIC WORKS | OF | SHAKSPEARE, | BY THE | ARTISTS OF
GREAT-BRITAIN. | [Vignette] | VOLUME I [II]. | — — | LONDON:
| PUBLISHED BY JOHN AND JOSIAH BOYDELL, | SHAKSPEARE
GALLERY, PALL-MALL, AND NO. 90, CHEAPSIDE. | PRINTED BY
W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND ROW. ST. JAMES'S. |
MDCCCIII [1803]. <Boston Public, Detroit Public, Folger (proofs and
etchings), Huntington (2 copies), Pierpont Morgan, Royal Academy
(2)>
Atlas 2° (68.5 cm high); Parker's plate of "Lady Macbeth with a
Letter" after Westall bears the date of 4 June 1800.
[Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele.] THE | SPECTATOR, |
VOLUME THE FIRST [-THIRD]. | Printed by C. WHITTINGHAM, Dean
Str. | Published by JOHN SHARPE, Piccadilly. | 1803. <BL: 243 b 24;
1456 h 5 — 12 (in 8 vols.)>
12°; the title-page is engraved; the half-titles of the three volumes
call it "The British Classics Vol. Fifth [ — Seventh]. 1803."
Parker engraved one of the 17 rather fine plates (his is after Stothard's
"The Rival Beauties", dated 20 Aug 1803), for which he was paid
£26.5.0.[60]
An 80 set in 8 volumes <BL: 1456 h 5 — 12> has a similar
title-page and the same plates, dated 1803, but the half-title of the first
volume (on laid, unwatermarked paper) calls it "The British Classics: Volume
the Fifth Containing the First Volume of the Spectator. 1812", though
subsequent volumes substitute "1812".
