Hackett engraving Hamlet's soliloquy on suicide -- Hamlet -- King Lear -- Actors of Hamlet: Cooper, Wallace, Conway, Hamblin, Edmund Kean, Young, Macready, Charles Kemble, Booth, J. Vandenhoff, Charles Kean, G. Vandenhoff, E. Forrest -- Correspondence on Shakespearean subjects with John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, James and Horace Smith, authors of the "Rejected addresses", Chas. A. Murray, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Earl of Carlisle, John Payne Collier ; "Misconceptions of Shakespeare on the stage, personations of the characters of Shakespeare, the character of Desdemona," by J. Q. Adams ; Verplanck's edition of Hamlet, Shakespearean verbal niceties, Harvey and Shakespeare, Iago -- Falstaff -- Sketch of Jas. H. Hackett Lincoln copy includes 8 p. of the publisher's advertisements at end Book, cloth; frontispiece Holograph in pencil on t.p.: E.R. Bales 1 18