SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Plays... with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Sam.

Johnson. Portrait in Volume 1; half-titles. 8 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/4 brown morocco, marbled boards. London: J. and R. Tonson et al., 1765 FIRST JOHNSON EDITION. "The first edition edited by the famous lexicographer, the first variorum edition, and the foundation of hundreds of subsequent editions" --Jaggard, page 501. Courtney & Nichol Smith, pages 107-08.