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Generic. Leather Bound. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Rare 1725 quarto edition edited by Dr. George Sewell, printed by J. Darby. This volume of poems is a supplement to the 6 volumes of plays edited by Alexander Pope (1723-1725), hence its designation as the seventh volume. Rebound in leather retaining the original boards; Title label on spine shows ""Shakesppear""; Chipping to front endpaper and title page; Pages cockled; Some foxing and age toning to pages; Name on front free endpaper and on title page verso; Text free from extraneous markings. A wonderful example of 18th century Shakespeare publishing, fit for any collector's shelf.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1709. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. Six volumes of Tonson's dramatic works of Shakespeare. Volumes I-V are in uniform bindings as a set, with the pages trimmed down. Volume VI is bound in a different half calf binding with larger page sizes due to their not being trimmed as closely as volumes I-V. The sixth volume could be trimmed and bound to match.This is the first edition of this work, edited by Nicholas Rowe. It is the first edition of Shakespeare's works to be published in the eighteenth century and has been referred to as the first 'modern' edition of the plays.As stated to the title page of volume I this set was originally published as six volumes as seen here. A seventh volume was published by a different publisher, E Curll, a year later in 1710 which added his poetry and critical remarks on his plays by C Gildon and is sometimes seen bound together with this set. This set contains all six volumes of Shakespeare's dramatic works edited by Rowe and… Read More