The Plays of William Shakespeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Stevens, Esq. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; A History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. By Alexander Chalmers, A.M. In Nine Volumes. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; J. Johnson; Etc. 1805.
A famous and celebrated edition of the works of William Shakespeare and landmark publication in Shakespearean scholarship. The Chalmers edition. A better condition example recently sold at Bonhams 22nd June 2022 lot 141 for £765.
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Contains: The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Measure for Measure; Much Ado About Nothing; Midsummer's Night Dream; 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; Comedy of Errors; 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; Timon of Athens; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Titus Andronicus; Pericles; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello.
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Alice Harter depicting a lion and three stars inside a shield.
Size: 141 x 215 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[half title, title, i-iv, i-xlvi, i-ii, 309pp.]; [half title, title, 494pp.]; [half title, title, 553pp.]; [half title, title, pp.1-4, pp.9-518]; [half title, title, 490pp.]; [half title, title, 524pp.]; [half title, title, 480pp.]; [half title, title, 473pp.]; [half title, title, 463pp.]
Spines rubbed and lightly cracked with some volumes lacking backstrip fragments; primarily a large fragment of backstrip lacking from the spine of volume two. Most tooled labels present; lacking two. All boards attached with wear to joints and hinges, some cracked or starting. Boards lightly rubbed with few minor scratches. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Bookplate attached to preliminary in all volumes. Joint repair between preliminaries and between preliminary and half title in volume one. Preliminaries loosely attached in volume four. Lacking pp.5-8 in volume four.
[OCLC: 794928210].
