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6d 12hUSLeland Little

Shakespeare's Complete Works in Three Uniformly Bound Volumes

Barry Cornwall, Richard Grant White, et al. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE: REVISED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS: With a Memoir, and Essay on his Genius... Also, Historical and Critical Studies of Shakespeare's Text, Characters, and Commentators; and Annotations and Introductory Remarks on the Plays. (3) volumes. London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, [mid- to late 19th century]. Half red leather over marbled paper-covered boards, spines with gilt lettering and compartments, with all edges gilt. 4to; Vol. I (Comedies) lxviii, 640pp.; Vol. II (Tragedies) 586pp.; Vol. III (Historical Plays, Poems, and Sonnets) [iv], 641, [1]pp., xvi. Illustrated with engravings on wood and steel after designs by Kenny Meadows; with frontispiece and additional engraved title in each volume. Each 11 x 7 3/4 in. From a Private Pinehurst, North Carolina Collection Extremely sturdy boards with some rubbing and scuffing, wear to extremities, areas of discoloration, and the joints with light rubbing, creasing, and a couple of areas with subtle cracking starting; light wear to gilt page edges; wear to endpapers such as scuffing, corner loss, and ownership signature in vol. I and II, with front free endpapers detached in vol. III; hinge cracking; text blocks with toning (heavy on some plates), scattered soiling and staining, occasional offsetting and light foxing, with various signs of handling wear such as occasional chipping and tears, with two small repaired tears to frontispiece in vol. III.

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