Publication Editor or edition Volumes Scan Notes
1619 William Jaggard 1 The False Folio. Ten Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays together in 1619, the first attempt to collect Shakespeare's work in a single volume.
1623 First Folio (F1) 1
1632 Second Folio (F2) 1
1663 Third Folio (F3) 1 Second issue of F3 in 1664 includes Pericles.
1685 Fourth Folio (F4) 1
1709 Nicholas Rowe 6 The Works of Mr. William Shakespear The first "named" edition of Shakespeare.
1723 Alexander Pope 6 The Works of Mr. William Shakespear Pope's first edition. A reprint of some sort happened in 1725, along with a "supplementary volume of poetry" (see IA description from BPL for this edition).
1728 Alexander Pope 10 The Works of Shakespear Second edition, incorporating, among other things, textual readings from Lewis Theobald. Published in 8 volumes; then followed by a 9th supplementary volume; then reissued in 10 volumes. According to its entry in the Folger Shakespeare Library's "Hamnet" database, no known copy exists that advertises "in nine volumes" on its title page.
1733 Lewis Theobald 7 The Works of Shakespeare
1734-5 Robert Walker Small-format editions of the individual plays
1734-6 Jacob Tonson
1740 Lewis Theobald 8 The Works of Shakespeare The second edition of Theobald's 1733 edition.
1743-4 Thomas Hanmer Was this an expensive quarto edition for OUP, and the later 1747 edition a cheaper, more accessible, edition for "regular" people? Peter Martin's Malone might have the details. Or perhaps Schoenbaum's Shakespeare's Lives.
1745 Thomas Hanmer 6 The Works of Shakespear Based on the Oxford quarto editions, but with added markup identifying notes and emendations from other editors. A first edition of the 1747 work? Or was 1747 a mere reprint of this?
1747 Thomas Hanmer 9 The Works of Shakespear A second edition? Or was it published posthumously? Hanmer died in 1746, so something is certainly up with this date. Labelled as published in 1747 on the title page, but based on the Oxford quarto editions of 1744.
1747 William Warburton 8 The Works of Shakespear
1748 Thomas Hanmer 9 The Works of Shakespear A new edition? A second printing of the 1747 edition?
1765 Samuel Johnson 8 The Plays of William Shakespeare The source of the famous Preface to Shakespeare.
1768 Edward Capell 10 The Works of Shakespeare Published in 1767–8, and in 11 physical volumes (Vol. 1 is in two parts).
1773 George Steevens 10 The Plays of William Shakespeare The first edition of the Johnson—Steevens Shakespeare. A revision of Samuel Johnson's edition.
1773-4 John Bell Based on the prompt books then being used in the London theatres.
1778 Isaac Reed 10 The Plays of William Shakespeare The second edition of the Johnson—Steevens Shakespeare. The first edition edited by Isaac Reed.
1780 Edmond Malone 2 Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare Published in 1778 The Sonnets and seven spurious plays.
1785 Isaac Reed 10 The Plays of William Shakespeare The third edition of the Johnson—Steevens Shakespeare.
1790 Edmond Malone 10 The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare The first volume is in two parts (1a, 1b).
1793 George Steevens 15 The Works of William Shakespeare The fourth edition of the Johnson—Steevens Shakespeare.
1791-1802 John Boydell
1795 First American edition published in Philadelphia.
1803 Isaac Reed 21 The Plays of William Shakspeare The fifth edition of the Johnson—Steevens Shakespeare. The First Variorum.
1813 Isaac Reed 21 The Second Variorum.
1821 James Boswell 21 The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare The Malone—Boswell edition. The Third Variorum.
1822-23 Pickering
1842 Charles Knight Published in parts in 1838–41. The Pictorial Shakespeare.
1865 James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps 16 The Works of William Shakespeare Limited edition of 150 copies printed by private subscription. Some copies on "India" paper and other special features. One additional copy printed for Halliwell-Phillipps himself. First volume printed in 1853, the rest spread out until the last volume in 1865.
1859-60 Mary Cowden Clarke
1863-6 William George Clark, John Glover, William Aldis Wright Cambridge University Press. The Cambridge edition. Also known as the Globe edition. Revised in 1891-93.
1870-1911 William J. Rolfe
1899-1924 W. J. Craig and R. H. Case The Arden Shakespeare, first series. Based on the revised Cambridge/Globe edition from 1891-93.
1921-66 John Dover Wilson and Arthur Quiller-Couch The New Cambridge Shakespeare
1937-59 George B. Harrison The Penguin Shakespeare
1946–82
The Arden Shakespeare, second series.
1951 Peter Alexander
1956-67 Alfred Harbage The Pelican Shakespeare
1974 G. Blakemore Evans The Riverside Shakespeare.
1986 Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor The Oxford Shakespeare
1995- Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan The Arden Shakespeare, third series