1847 The Plays of William Shakespeare

Description

Leather Binding

A charming eight volume edition of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, in full calf bindings with gilt detailing.

Complete in eight volumes.

With a frontispiece portrait to vol. I.

The complete plays of Shakespeare, including: The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Much ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost; Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, All's Well that Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Winter's Tale; Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, King John, King Richard II, King Henry IV part I; part II, King Henry V, King Henry VI in three parts; King Richard III, King Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus; Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Titus and Andronicus, Pericles; King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello. 

With historical and explanatory notices by Scottish doctor, newspaper editor Alexander Chalmers. Printed form the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes. 
 
A delightful edition of the works of the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

With the bookplate of Edward Pelham-Clinton, a British Liberal Party politician, to each front pastedown.

Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.

Contemporary inscription to a front blank of volume I.