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1826 The Plays of William Shakspeare. Volumes I - IV, VI-VIII. Seven Volumes of Eight Only.
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Leather Binding
Includes a life of Shakespeare, Johnson's preface, and Pope's preface. With a frontispiece in Volume One of Shakespeare. Accurately printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, and Edmond Malone, with Mr Malone's Various Readings; A Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the most Eminent Commentators; A History of the Stage and a Life of Shakespeare. By Alexander Chalmers. Seven Volumes of Eight only. Volumes I - IV, VI - VIII. Volume V is missing. The plays missing from this set are Henry IV Part II, Henry V, and if they were included, Henry VI and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Condition
In full diced calf bindings. Externally, edgewear with loss to the top and tail of the spines. With the backstrip of volume eight partially missing, and the remainder coming away. Internally, firmly bound, with light browning and marginal spots. With a few marginal tidemarks to the first few pages of volume. In an ink inscription to the front free-endpapers, and the front pastedown of volume one.
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