Portrait by Ridley; title vignette.

The special t.-p. prefixed to each play describes this as "Harding's edition ... Accurately printed from the text of Mr. Steevens's last edition. Ornamented with plates ... Pub. by E. Harding [etc.] 1798[-99]" Each play is paged separately, but without plates. The set was also issued in 38 numbers, with plates. cf. v. 1, p. cxl.

v. 1. Life [of Shakespeare, by N. Rowe] Preface [by S. Johnson] R. Farmer's essay [on the learning of Shakespeare] Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona.

v. 2. The merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing.

v. 3. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it.

v. 4. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors.

v. 5. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II.

v. 6. King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry V.

v. 7. King Henry VI, pt. 1-3.

v. 8. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens.

v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar.

v. 10. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus.

v. 11. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet.

v. 12. Hamlet, Othello, Glossary.