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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Plays and Poems of William Shakespare
Corrected from the lates + best London editions,
with notes by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
Philadelphia: Bioren + Madan, 1795-96.
Ref: Sabin 79729. Evans 29496 (Vol. 10). Jagged p. 507
Copy: HEHL, Folger, LC, Yale, BM

First American edition. 8, twelvemo volumes.
{ p. 21 + 22 King John Act II
Scene 1, line 207 → 283.

Evans 29496.
1795 3 vols. pp. (4), iii-xlviii, 384, portrait; 412; 432
one of the rarest editions in complete condition.
Vol. IV-VIII were printed in 1796.
HEHL 109497
my leaf from Vol. 4 (printed 1796)
B4 (of 6) → B, leaf c no sig, B2, (3 4, 5 no sig.)
Vol. 4 contains King John {begins p. 5 (A2) ends p. 82
Richard II
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
The first play in Vol. I is The Tempest.
(printed 1795)
John Bionen (1772-1835)

In 1730, an amateur production of Romeo + Juliet
in New York City became the 1st recorded production
of a play by Shakespeare in the New World