Description

Early printing of the edition. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece of Shakespeare. 8vo, beautifully bound in full dark-green crushed morocco, the spine with raised bands richly gilt, separating compartments with fully gilt panels incorporated broad central gilt tools and elaborate borders, one compartment lettered in gilt, the covers fully gilt with elaborately tooled borders enclosing very finely and broadly tooled inner designs in gilt, all edges gilt, end-leaves of fine marbled paper. 1352 pp. including a very extensive glossary. A very fine copy, especially well preserved, very handsome and a beautifully bound book.

Edizione: a wonderful collection of the complete works of the venerable bard. besides of full complement of the plays, the sonnets and the longer poems are all included. there is a fine glossary, an index of first lines, and an index of characters.