Search Results: William Shakespeare Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies Histories Tragedies and Poems Volume 6

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Good. Good. No dust jacket as issued. all solid and clean few bumps here and there some were at spine of 1 and two at top all tight all six vols are red boards w/ gold print on spine w/ intact tissue on vol 1

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson .., 1725 - "1723"[sic].. Six volumes. xli,[13],[4],563, plus portrait and plate; 656; 499; 547,[1]; 599; 591,[1],36pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra. Rebacked at a relatively early date, with the original backstrips laid down, new labels. Most joints cracking (but cords sound), chipping to joints and spine extremities (costing part of the top section of the spine of Vol. I), corner of one blank rear free endsheet torn away, fore-corners bumped and scraped, some occasional dusting, finger-smudges or minor foxing, otherwise internally very good or somewhat better, externally moderately sound. The first edition of Pope's edited texts of Shakespeare's plays, printed by subscription in an edition of 750 sets (of which 140 sets remained unsold), and the first collected edition in quarto. The first volume includes a list of Subscribers. While the general title in the first volume is appropriately dated 1725, the titlepages of the separate volumes are… Read More