William Shakespeare - The Works of Shakespeare - 1769

The Works of Shakespeare 1769 - with notes by Pope, Warburton and Dodd. Together with the author's life and a list of the various readings. The work brings together the Shakespearean dramatic corpus divided into eight volumes, accompanied by the Dramatis Personae at the opening of each work and completed in the last volume by a glossary and an index. Among the partitions and texts documented on the frontispieces are:
Volume I (Volume the First): The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure.
Volume II: Much Ado about Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew.
Volume of the Historical Dramas: King Henry VI. Part II, King Henry VI. Part III, King Richard III (The Life and Death of King Richard III), King Henry VIII.
Volume VIII (Volume the Eighth): Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, followed by A Glossary and An Index.
Uniform full-leather binding in wine/bordeaux color on the boards, adorned with an architectural and floral frame dry-embossed with a central decorative frieze. The spines, toned to a warm hazelnut-brown shade, feature rich vertical ornaments blind-embossed, the title "The Works of Shakespear" and the volume numbering (1–8) gold-pressed. Solid and complete set in its 8 volumes. Normal aging browning of the spines relative to the boards and slight age-related wear to the headcaps and along the margins of the hinges. Internal pages on period laid paper in good overall condition, with crisp typography and margins well preserved. Noted are the normal browning of time, sporadic and light foxing and a natural transparency of the printed text on the verso of some sheets.
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