Pope's editions of William Shakespeare

Pope was the first to attempt a collation of the quarto texts of the plays but basically this is a reprint of Rowe that added little of value.

• The Works of Shakespear
  
  • 1723 - first edition - quarto - 6 volumes
    Collated and Corrected by the former editions, By Mr. Pope.
    
    
    • —Laniatum corpore toto
    • Deiphobum vidi, &c lacerum crudelitur ora,
    • Ora, manusque ambas, populatque tempora raptis
    • Auribus, &c truncas inhonesto vulnere nares!
    • Quis tam crudeles optavit sumere paenas?
    • Cui tantum de te licuit? .VIRG.

    London: Printed for Jacob Tonson in the Strand. MDCCXXV.

    • Volume 1
      1. a general title page for the 6 vols, printed in red and black, dated 1725
      2. The preface of the editor [Mr. Pope]
      3. Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare
           written by Mr. Rowe
      4. To the memory of my beloved the author, Mr. William Shakespeare,
           and what he hath left us
         a poem by Ben Johnson, [etc.]
    • Volumes 1-6
      1. each has A seperate title page: 'The Works of William Shakespear'
      2. Printed for Jacob Tonson, MDCCXXIII
      3. On the back of each title page is listed the contents of the volume
    
    
    • Contents
      • v. 1. Comedies
        • The tempest
        • A midsummer night's dream
        • The two gentlemen of Verona
        • The merry wives of Windsor
        • Measure for measure
        • The comedy of errors
        • Much ado about nothing
      • v. 2. Comedies
        • The merchant of Venice
        • Love's labour's lost
        • As you like it
        • The taming of the shrew
        • All's well that ends well
        • Twelfth night, or what you will
        • The winter's tale
      • v. 3. Historical plays
        • King Lear
        • King John
        • King Richard II
        • King Henry IV, part I
        • King Henry IV, part II
        • King Henry V
      • v. 4. Historical plays
        • King Henry VI, part I
        • King Henry VI, part II
        • King Henry VI, part III
        • King Richard III
        • King Henry VIII
      • v. 5. Tragedies from history
        • Timon of Athens
        • Coriolanus
        • Julius Caesar
        • Antony and Cleopatra
        • Titus Andronicus
        • Macbeth
      • v. 6. Tragedies from fable
        • Troilus and Cressida
        • Cymbeline
        • Romeo and Juliet
        • Hamlet
        • Othello
        • Index of the characters, sentiments, speeches and descriptions in Shakespeare
        • A table of the several editions of Shakespear's plays, made use of and compared in this impression
      • 1723-25 Pope and Sewell
        The Works of Shakespear
        Ed. Alexander Pope and George Sewell. 7 vols. 1723-25
        In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey.

        Includes supplementary volume of poems. "To which is prefix'd, an essay on the art, rise, and progress of the stage, in Greece, Rome, and England [by C. Gildon] ...The whole revis'd and corrected, with a preface by Dr. Sewell. London, Printed by J. Darby for A. Bettesworth [etc.]

      • 1726 - 6 vols. London, 1725