1846 The Standard Edition of the Pictorial Shakspere

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

A scarce set, complete in seven volumes.

Illustrated with a title page to the start of each volume, with vignette illustrations throughout, and with an illustrated title page for each play.

Collated, complete.

Edited by Charles Knight.

Knight himself owned and repaired an imperfect First Folio in his youth, and created this edition in order to focus on accurate depictions of settings, historical figures, and period costume, while keeping the text close to First Folio readings, occasionally checked against originals in the British Museum.

Consisting of an introductory volume housing Shakespeare's poetry, two volumes devoted to the histories, two to the tragedies, and two to the comedies.

Handsomely bound in full calf, with gilt detailing.

Undated; dated 1843 via the British Library.