The Plays of William Shakspeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq.; With Mr. Malone's Various Readings; A Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators
London: Longman and Co.,; Rivingtons; T. Hatchard; ... and Stewart, Edinburgh, 1856. Later edition. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xlviii, [1], 2-285, [3]; [9], 6-458, [2]; [11], 8-519, [3]; [9], 6-489, [3]; [9], 6-575, [3]; [9], 6-621, [3]; [9], 6-553, [3]; [9], 6-540, [2] pp. Full contemporary calf with twin gilt rules to each board, gilt gauffering to the boards' edges, spines in six compartments, two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt on the spines, spines with heavy gilt decorations; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Volume one illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare. Volume one contains the Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the Merry Wives of Windsor; volume two contains Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Love's Labour's Lost; volume three has Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, All's Well that Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, and Winter's Tale; volume four has Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, King John, King Richard II, King Henry IV, part I; volume five has King Henry IV Part II, King Henry V, and all three parts of King Henry VI; volume six has King Richard III, King Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, and Coriolanus; volume seven has Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, and Pericles; volume eight has King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello. Volume one with a preface by Alexander Pope. With a history of the stage, and a life of Shakspeare, by Alexander Chalmers. Each front pastedown with a small, contemporary bookseller's ticket: Dorman, of Northampton. Lowndes 2269. A stunning set of the Bard's plays, elegantly produced. Near Fine. Item #000010710
A contemporary ownership inscription on the front flyleaf of volume one, volume eight's front board skilfully reattached.
Price: $1,250.00