The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, from the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed, Esq. With Copious Annotations. Twelve Volumes. London; Printed for J. Walker, G. Offer, Sharpe and sons, etc.; 1820.
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Containing the Plays: The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Midsummer-Night's Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Love's Labour's Lost, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Winter's Tale, Macbeth, King John, King Richard II., King Henry IV. Part I., King Henry IV. Part II., King Henry V., King Henry VI. Part I., King Henry VI. Part II., King Henry VI. Part III., King Richard III., King Henry VIII., Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, & Pericles.
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From Rowes', Printers, Booksellers, Stationers, & Binders. Plymouth. Library & News Room.
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Provenance: Includes a note providing more information on the previous owners. Note says: "Mary Rivers. Born 1737 Died 1833 aged 96. Jane Paine. Born 1735 - Died 1814 aged 79. Mary Rivers, her Godfather was Adm. Lond Rodney & other Godfather was Lord Pitt-Rivers".
This set was sold at Christie's on the 23rd of November 1998 as part of the MacKenna Library sale.
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Size: 110 x 185 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
Very minor marks and wear on spines. All boards securely attached with very minor wear. Some scuffing and very minor rubbing on boards. Shelf wear. Light dulling to page edges. Pen ownership inscription on preliminary in volume one. Pen ownership inscription on title pages. Text blocks fairly clean with sporadic and minor foxing. Small number of pages are more prominently toned than the rest. Endpapers foxed. Frontispiece transferred onto title page in volume one.
