BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION SET OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS
SHAKESPEARE. Works. London: Grolier Society, circa 1900. Ten volumes bound in twenty. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened.
Edition de Luxe of Shakespeare’s Works, number 54 of 1000 sets produced, beautifully illustrated with hand-colored frontispieces and numerous plates in each volume, very handsomely bound.
Includes all of Shakespeare's plays as well as the poems and sonnets. Edited by Reverend Alexander Dyce, with his "Life of the Poet," explanatory notes and glossary. Includes some of the introductions from important earlier editors of Shakespeare's works. Title pages printed in red and black. Bookplates.
Fine condition.