present adoption, if primitive accuracy be preferable to modern variations--as in Spencer, where it is written, and explained in the Glossary, spere, a spear. In the mode of printing too, he hath ventured to depart from the common mode, by rejecting the long f in favour of the round one, as being less liable to error from the occasional imperfections of the letter f, and the frequent substitution of it for the long f; the regularity of the print is " by that means very much promoted, the lines having the effect of being more open, without really being at any additional distance. ': How far the Editor, by what he hath done, may have accomplished his object, it becomes not him to determine. He, however, awaits the Sentence of the Public, with the less apprehension, from a consciousness of the assistance with which he hath been favoured. To those Gentlemen, who have not only corrected their Notes, as printed before, but increased the obligation, by fresh communications; he begs leaye to return his most grateful acknowledgments. Of each Volume of Bell's Edition of" SHAKSPERE. BELL'S SHAKSPERE. The-First Volume, entitled PROLEGOMENA; Page OF WALES. a 1 ADVERTISEMENT of the present PUBLISHER. PREFACE by Heminge and CONDELLs to their Edition - by HANMER. by WARBURTON. Advertisement prefixed to Mr. STEEVENS's Twenty Advertisement prefixed to the Second Edition by Mr. Essay on the Origin of the English Stage." Addition to the Essay on the Origin of the English Stage. 225 The Globe Theatre, from the long Antwerp View of London. 233 Licenses to SHAKSPERE, &c. from Rymer's Fædera, 234 modern, and of Plays altered from him. 240 List of detached Pieces of Criticism on SHAKSPERE, Entries of SHAKSPERE's Plays on the Books of the Sta- Coppe COPPER-PLATE EMBELLISHMENTs for this Volume, A Portrait of His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES. , 1 to front the printed Title. SHAKSPERE's House at Stratford-upon-Avon. · Portrait of Sir THOMAS HANMER. of WARBURTON. 247 IIO The Second Volume, entitled PROLEGOMENA, contains which the FLAYS of SHAKSPERE were written, 297 A List of Ancient Translations from Classic Authors. ' 416 Appendix to Mr. Colman's Translation of Terence. 442 Extract from Dr. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Registers of SHAKSPERE's Family. 504 Dedication of HEMINGE and CONDELL to the folio Edition 497 501 Copper-Plate EMBELLISHMEnts in this Volume, Portrait of Mr. MALONE, to front the Title-page. · Portrait of Garrick, has no immediate reference to the Work, but may be preserved as the best acting SHAKSPERE's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon. · Portrait of SHAKSPERE, from an Engraving by Martin 507 SHAKSPERE's Monument in Westminster Abbey · Portrait of SHAKSPERE, from that by Marshall, prefixed 514 In the following part of this Arrangement, the ANNOTA-' tions are to be bound up at the end of each Play, h Page. And a Character print. 8. Vignette Scene print. 90% And a Character print. 79 - Vol. 4. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Vignette. Vol. 5. MEASURE FOR MEASURE.. Vignette. 90 Vol. 6. LOVE's LABOUR's LOST. Vignette. 16 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.Vignette. 25 - Vol. 7. MERCHANT OF VENICE. Vignette. 105 : Vol. 8. TAMING OF THE SHREW. Vignette. |