SHAKESPEARE, William.

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Complete Works. The Boston Edition, comprising seven volumes of dramatic works, each play prefaced with steel-engraved portrait of the leading female character, and a final volume of poetry. This edition is praised for both the beauty of its plates, as well as its text. The latter follows an edition of 1836 which "deserves to be called epoch-making, for the publishers claim to follow, in general, the readings of the folio of 1623. Up to this date, in America, editors had paid no attention to the original sources... here, for the first time in America, is sounded the true note for a correct editing of the Shakespearian text" (p. 658).

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