London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd, 1903
A handsome copy of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, his sonnets, and narrative poems. With an index of characters and key terms, bound in gilt calf for Bedford school.
Large 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm); title-vignette, presentation bookplate to front pastedown; prize binding for Bedford School, contemporary calf, school crest in gilt to upper panel, within blind-stamp pointilé and double gilt fillet border, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting green morocco title-piece, marbled edges, spotting to endpapers and edges, otherwise internally clean, very good; viii, 1111, [1]pp.
Large 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm); title-vignette, presentation bookplate to front pastedown; prize binding for Bedford School, contemporary calf, school crest in gilt to upper panel, within blind-stamp pointilé and double gilt fillet border, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting green morocco title-piece, marbled edges, spotting to endpapers and edges, otherwise internally clean, very good; viii, 1111, [1]pp.
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