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[1864-1868] Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare: The Plays of Shakespeare
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
A wonderfully illustrated set of Cassell's 'Illustrated Shakespeare' series, in half calf with red cloth boards, complete in three volumes: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Volumes I - III, complete; separated into Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies respectively.
Edited by Charles Cowden Clarke, 1787 – 1877, and Mary Cowden Clarke, 1809 – 1898, both English authors and Shakespearean scholars.
With many full-page illustrations by Henry Courtney Selous, 1803 - 1890, an English painter, illustrator, and lithographer.
With Titus Andronicus omitted from the 'Tragedies' volume, on account of - as is written in the Preface - 'not only its grossness, but because of our strong conviction that it is not [Shakespeare's] writing.'
Condition
In half green calf with red cloth boards, complete with marbled paste downs and fore edges. Externally, very smart with handling marks to leather and the odd mark to the boards. The odd small damp stain to leather of corners of vols I and II, and spine of III. Slight cracking of leather to spine labels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned with some spotting to the first and last few, heaviest to endpapers. Marbled paste downs and fore edge.
Very Good Indeed
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