The Works of Shakspeare [Shakespeare] (1875)
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The Works of Shakspeare [Shakespeare] (1875)
by William Shakespeare; Knight, Charles, ed.
15 x 11 ¼ x 3 ¼. In English. Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1875. Imperial Edition. Two Volumes. Complete. Huge FOLIOS with Illustrations on steel. Original and deluxe leather bindings of 3/4 chestnut brown morocco. Very heavy volumes. Five raised bands per spine with gilt accents. Gilt lettered direct. Gilt decorative devices in spine compartments, along with tooled designs. Gilt ruling to boards. Elaborate gilt titling and gilt pictorial illustration to front boards. All edges of text blocks are gilded and bright. Bindings are solid. Marbleized endpapers, with remain free from Ex Libris plates. Beveled boards. About a 2" x 2" square of cloth absent from back board of Volume I. Top of front joint just starting. Otherwise, minor wear to extremities. A handsome copy.
Possibly one of the most striking productions of Shakespeare. Text is clean and crisp. Includes: Two Gentlemen of Verona. Loe's Labour's Lost. Merry Wives of Windsor. Comedy of Errors. Taming of the Shrew. Midsummer Night's Dream. Merchant of Venice. All's Well that Ends Well. Much Ado about Nothing. Twelfth Night: or Do What You Will. As You Like It. Measure for Measure. Winter's Tale. The Tempest. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV parts I & II. King Henry V. King Henry VI parts I, II & III. King Richard III, Henry VII. An essay on the 3 parts of Henry VI and King Richard III with reference to the opinion that the 3 parts of Henry VI were not originally written by Shakespere. TRAGEDIES: Romeo & Juliet. Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Cymbeline. Othello. Timon of Athens. MacBeth. Troilus & Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony & Cleopatra. Pericles. Titus Andronicus. The Two Noble Kinsmen. POEMS: Venus & Adonis. The Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. A Lover's Complaint. The Passionate Pilgrim. Song. Verses among the additional poems to Chester's Love's Martyr 1601. PLAYS ASCRIBED TO SHAKESPERE: Locrine. Sir John Oldcastle part I. Thomas Lord Cromwell. The London Prodigal. The Puritan. A Yorkshire Tragedy. Arden of Feversham. King Edward III. George-A-Green. Fair Em. Mucedorus. The Birth of Merlin. The Merry Devil of Edmonton. A brief notice of opinion on the writings of Shakespere. Glossarial. Dramatis Personae.
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