The Plays of William Shakespeare from the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed, Esq. London: Printed for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe; and Taylor and Hessey, 1809.
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Contains:
The Life; Dr. Johnson's Preface; Farmer's Essay on Shakespeare; 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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Size: 112 x 182 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[frontis, t.p., 152pp., 163pp.]; [t.p., 366pp.]; [t.p., 293pp.]; [t.p., 299pp.]; [t.p., 302pp.]; [t.p., 323pp.]; [t.p., 332pp.]; [t.p., 357pp., 1pp.]; [t.p., 351pp.]; [t.p., 391pp.]; [t.p., 342pp.]; [t.p., 373pp.]
Full calf bindings with black tooled labels to spines in compartments between gilt bands, other compartments with decorative gilt. Bindings lightly rubbed and scuffed. Some loss to the backstrip of volume ten. Some tooled labels chipped. All bards attached with rubbing along joints, and some joints and hinges starting/cracked. Shelf and edge wear. Some volumes with a shelf lean, when placed together as a set the volumes remain upright and straight. Marbled page edges somewhat dulled. No attached bookplates or ownership inscriptions. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occasional foxing.
