I just bought a complete works book

[AQuick]

ok, I just bought the Border's Leatherbound Complete Works of Shakespeare and I need your help on trying to figure out how they decided the order, since it is bothering me, I already discovered that they break it into the categories, Comedy, History, then the Tragedies, but I can't decipher the order within those, it isn't chronologically, or alphabetically. Here is their order(I will abbreviate some titles, since I have to leave in 10 minutes):
The Tempest
Two Gentlemen
Merry Wives
Twelfth Night
Measure for Measure
Much Ado
Midsummer
Love's Labour
Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
The Winter's Tale
The Comedy of Errors
King John
Richard II
Henry IV part 1
Henry IV part 2
Henry V
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
"" Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Troilus and Cressida
Timon of Athens
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Antony
Cymbeline
Titus
Pericles
King Lear
R&J
The Scottish Play(hey, I'm superstitious)
Hamlet
finally, Othello

any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[Xamonas Chegwe]

These are close to (but not identical to) the original, first folio order. I'm afraid that I can't explain the differences except to suggest that they were probably the choice of some editor, maybe due to some printing constraint. HERE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare#Bibliography) is the original order.

[Virgil]

It's actually strange that they would put it in this order. The compendiums I have all divide it into the three catagories with a fourth catagory of poems not in plays (like the sonnets) and within the catagories order the works chronologically. I have not seen anything different than that.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Virgil,

My own copy "The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare" is also close, but subtly different, to the chronological sequence, subdivided into com/his/trag and followed by the poetry. It is however, in a different different sequence to AQuick's volume. Like I say, editorial discretion.

The main thing is, as far as I can tell, the words are all in the correct order. :D

[AQuick]

It's actually strange that they would put it in this order. The compendiums I have all divide it into the three catagories with a fourth catagory of poems not in plays (like the sonnets) and within the catagories order the works chronologically. I have not seen anything different than that.
Yes, it does have the Poems, I believe(I am lazy and the book is in another room), first the sonnets, then Venus and Adonis, then the Rape of Lucrece, then poems that I have never heard of.