The Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare]
SHAKESPEARE, William
Imperial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. With Illustrations on Steel.
BRIGHT, CLEAN, FIRM COPY IN PUBLISHER'S HALF MOROCCO
Published: Virtue, [1873-76]
Stock code: 27458
Price: £585.00
2 vols., large folio First Edition thus, text in double column, with engraved frontispieces, engraved and printed titles, and 37 fine engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), frontispieces mildly browned; strongly bound in publisher's black half morocco, coarse-grain cloth sides ruled in gilt, backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt and blind, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, hinges open (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably bright, clean, firm, crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding.
The set comprises Vol. I: Comedies, Histories; Vol. II: Histories, Tragedies, Poems, Plays ascribed to Shakespeare; Brief Notice of Opinion on the Writings. This splendid edition of the Bard is illustrated and engraved by some of the leading artists of the period, including Leslie, Huskisson, Maclise, Pettie, Orchardson and others. The engravings are by Artlett, Sharpe, Lizars, Sherrett, Armytage and several more. Of particular interest is the section on attributed pieces - comprising new fewer than thirteen dramas, the full texts of which are not easily available elsehwere: Locine; Sir John Oldcastle Part I; Thomas Lord Cromwell; The London Prodigal; The Puritain; A Yorkshire Tragedy; Arden of Feversham [sic]; King Edward III; George-A-Greene; Fair Em; Mucedorus; The Birth of Merlin; The Merry Devil of Edmonton. A BRIGHT COPY OF AN INPRESSIVE AND IMPORTANT EDITION.