The Works of William Shakespeare

Single leather bound volume of "Works of Shakespeare".  Soft brown,mottled leather bound. Gilt "Shakespeare" on spine and front cover. Gilt flowers (roses?) on lower right corner of cover. Floral end papers. Colour portrait of Shakespeare. Gilt edged pages with red underneath gilt. Contains memoir and Will of Shakespeare, and glossary. 7 1/2" by 5" by 1".  xvi, 748 pgs.  Preface: "This Edition of SHAKSPEARE has been carefully prepared from the earliest and more modern Editions. Where Commentators have difffered on the sense of obscure or doubtful pasages, we have selected those readdings which we believed to be most Shakespearian and best suited to a popular Edition."

Contains:Memoir of Shakspeare, Shakspeare's Will, The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado Aout Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, Midsummer-Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew, All's Well that Ends Well, Twelfth-Night: Or, What you Will, The Winter's Tale, King John, King Richar II, Firt Part of King Henry IV, Second Part of KIng Henry V, King Henry V, Second Part of King Henry VI, Third Part of King Henry VI, Life and Death of King Richard III, King Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Cymbeline, Macbeth, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Moor of Venice, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, Princey of Tyre, Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and Turtle.

Cover detached from body of book. Clear tape on spine, tape on end papers. Pages with text in excellent condition.

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