The Plays of William Shakspeare,

A charming set of Shakespeare bound in full marbled calf. With both Johnson's and Pope's prefaces, and Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage.

Comprising: Vol. 1. The Tempest, The Two Gentleman of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor;Vol. 2. Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost; Vol. 3. The Merchant of Venice, All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale; Vol. IV. The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, The Life and Death of King John, Richard II, Henry IV part 1; Vol. V. Henry IV part 2, Henry V, Henry VI part 1 and 2; Vol. VI. Henry VI part 3, Richard III, Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida; Vol. VII. Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra; Vol. VIII. Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, King Lear; Vol IX. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello.

9 vols, 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm); 37 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, armorial bookplate to pastedowns, fresh and clean internally; contemporary full marbled calf, gilt rolls to board borders, edges, and turn-ins, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, occasional restoration to joints, a touch of rubbing to extremities, a very good set.

Jaggard p.510.