Nine volumes. Woodcut vignettes to title pages. 32mo. Contemporary full blue-green calf, spines with three single raised bands outlined in gilt, second and third panels lettered in gilt on red morocco labels, the rest elaborately stamps in gilt, covers with single gilt fillet borders. Housed in a functional black cloth folding box. London, John Bumpus, 1823.
A handsome diminutive set of Shakespeare’s plays based on the important 1765 edition edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.
Spotting to endpapers and occasionally throughout, light wear to extremities, Vols 1 & 2 rebacked with original spines laid-down and endpapers renewed, front hinge of Vol. 3 split.
