lxviii, 167 pages : frontispiece (facsimile) ; 18 x 15 cm
OCLC
ocm02128964, ocm23756670
Added half-title: Portait of Shakespeare with the legend "The Shakespeare classics" within ornamental border.
Printed in Great Britain.
A modernized edition based upon that by P. A. Daniel, issued by the New Shakespeare Society in 1875. The t.-p. of the original edition, London, 1562, is reproduced in photogravure: The tragicall historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Dr. Br. In aedibus Richardi Tottelli.
Appendix I (p. [131]-145): Table of correspondence between Brooke's poem and Shakespeare's play.
Appendix II (p. [147]-163): Brooke's use of Boaistuau and Chaucer.