1883 Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

One of five hundred and fifty copies printed, of which this is number 404. 

Very scarce to find complete in eight volumes such as this. 

Uniformly bound in half crushed morocco. 

Illustrated with plates etched by M. Monzies, from the original designs of M. Pille, as well as in-text woodcut decorations and initials.

Comprising the following: 

Volume I contains The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedie of Errors, and Much adoe about Nothing. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven etched plates. 

Volume II contains Loves Labour's Lost; A Midsommer Nights Dreame; The Merchant of Venice; As you Like it, and The Taming of the Shrew. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four etched plates. 

Volume III contains All's Well, that Ends Well; Twelfe Night, Or what you will; The Winters Tale; The life and death of King John, and The life and death of King Richard the Second. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four etched plates. 

Volume IV contains The First and Second Part of Henry the Fourth; The Life of Henry the Fift, and The First Part of Henry the Sixt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three etched plates. 

Volume V contains The Second and Third Part of Henry the Sixt; The Tragedy of Richard the Third, and The Life of King Henry the Eight. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three etched plates. 

Volume VI contains The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three etched plates. 

Volume VII contains The Life of Tymon of Athens; The Tragedie of Julius Caesar; The Tragedie of Macbeth; The Tragedie of Hamlet. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three etched plates. 

Volume VIII contains The Tragedie of King Lear; The Tragedie of Othello; The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra; The Tragedie of Cymbeline. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three etched plates.

Collated, complete.