DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. The Text of the First Edition. Illustrated with Etchings.
William Paterson, Edinburgh. 1883, 1883.
LIMITED EDITION. 8 volumes - Complete. One of only 550 numbered sets, this number 30 with limitation leaf in each volume. 8vo (7.9 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with a total of 38 plates, a portrait of Shakespeare in Volume one and 37 etchings by M. Monzies, from the original designs of M. Pille, as well as several woodcut decorations and initials throughout the text. A fine and clean set throughout. Attractive early bindings, for Henry Bumpus of High Holborn, London, of half burgundy straight grained morocco. Spines with five wide raised bands, each with triple gilt ruled lines. Compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Green paper on boards with gilt ruled borders on the leather. Plain green paper endpapers. All edges gilt. A clean and bright copy in attractive leather bindings with some minor rubbing to the extremities but overall very good indeed. Volume I: The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedie of Errors, and Much adoe about Nothing. Volume II: Loves Labour's Lost; A Midsommer Nights Dreame; The Merchant of Venice; As you Like it, and The Taming of the Shrew. Volume III: All's Well, that Ends Well; Twelfe Night, Or what you will; The Winters Tale; The life and death of King John, and The life and death of King Richard the Second. Volume IV: The First and Second Part of Henry the Fourth; The Life of Henry the Fift, and The First Part of Henry the Sixt. Volume V: The Second and Third Part of Henry the Sixt; The Tragedy of Richard the Third, and The Life of King Henry the Eight. Volume VI: The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Volume VII: The Life of Tymon of Athens; The Tragedie of Julius Caesar; The Tragedie of Macbeth; The Tragedie of Hamlet. Volume VIII: The Tragedie of King Lear; The Tragedie of Othello; The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra; The Tragedie of Cymbeline.
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Price: £850.00