SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

With Dr. Johnson’s Preface; a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play; and a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. William Harness.

Large 8vo. xxxvi, 3-926 pp., text in double-columns. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare after the Chandos picture and with 40 steel-engraved plates by C. Heath, C. Rolls, F. Bacon &c., from designs by Smirke, Westall, Corbould, Stephanoff, and Wright, with tissue-guards. Contemporary full vellum by Birdsall & Son of Northhampton elaborately ruled and decorated in gilt, spine lettered in gilt on brown morocco label, front cover incorporating the gilt crest of the Maxwell family, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, all edges in gilt. London, Scott, Webster and Geary, 1836.

£750.00
SHAKESPEARE (William).
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

A well-illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s plays, handsomely bound in gilt vellum by Birdsall for the Maxwell family of Monreith, bearing the engraved armoiral bookplate of the novelist, antiquarian, artist, naturalist and politician Sir Herbert Maxwell (1845-1937).

A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the foot of the spine and minor marking to the boards. Creasing to pp.285/86, the odd tear or chip to a few of the tissue-guards, a few small marks to blank margins and occasional light scattered foxing, otherwise generally internally clean.

Provenance: The library of Monreith House, seat of the Maxwell family.

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264250
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