The Merry Wives of Windsor, a Concordance to the Text of the First Folio

Dust jacket price clipped, slight fade to spine, wear to edges, now in protective sleeve. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No inscription. xvi 284p clean and tight. In this series of Oxford Shakespeare Concordances, a separate volume is devoted to each of the plays. The text for each concordance is the one chosen as copy-text by Dr. Alice Walker for the Oxford Old Spelling Shakespeare now in preparation. Each concordance takes account of every word in the text, and represents their occurrence by frequency counts, line numbers, and reference lines, or a selection of these according to the interest of the particular word. The number of words which have frequency counts only has been kept as low as possible. The introduction to each volume records the facsimile copy of the text from which the concordance was prepared, a table of Folio through line numbers and Globe edition act and scene numbers, a list of the misprints corrected in the text, and an account of the order of printing, and the proof-reading, abstracted from Professor Charlton Hinman's The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Oxford, 1963). Size: 8vo.…