Some of the famous plays included in the book are The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and The Tempest, among others.
This volume includes the sonnets written by Shakespeare, along with this longer poems like Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Light toning to vellum labels, bookplate of noted Kent collector Eliot Stanley at front pastedowns (printed by Anthoennsen Press), touch of toning at endpages (as typical), else tight, bright and unmarred.Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a collection of all the plays and poems written by William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of all time.Ĭomplete Works of William Shakespeare is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it comprises all the plays in chronological order in which they were written.
Noted flaws to the slipcase notwithstanding, a very handsome set. Infamous for a slipcase with paper seams (unreinforced, no cloth, etc) so prone to failure it is nearly impossible to find intact/undamaged. Tedesco and printed at the Country Life Press. Each play is illustrated with a full page plate by Rockwell Kent (titled at verso). The Cambridge Edition text, edited by William Wright. Illustrated with new and finely executed steel engravings, chiefly portraits in character of celebrated American actors. Edited by an eminent American Shakespearian scholar. The complete works of Shakespeare from the original text: carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: with historical and critical introductions, and notes to each play and a life of the great dramatist by Charles Knight. Edited by an eminent American Shakespearian scholar, as stated on the title pages. FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING of this edition of Shakespeare. Chips to two corners of swivel case, spines of some volumes toned or chipped at head. Housed in the original wooden revolving case, which is very difficult to obtain. Bound in red lambskin stamped in gilt with the title and elaborate border decorations to the front and spine the very rare white paper dust wrappers with matching title and border decorations in black present but in pieces.
Included are all the plays, the sonnets, a biographical sketch, and glossary. Of the Ellen Terry series, Louis Bondy wrote that these volumes are "Bryce's greatest achievement as a leading promoter of miniature books," and, in particular, he describes the Shakespeare as "the most prodigious of these sets." (Bondy, p. Dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry, this complete set of Shakespeare was part of a series of literary sets and individual volumes dedicated to her. Glasgow & NY: David Bryce & Son / Frederick A.
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