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The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text Regulated by the Folio of 1632; with Readings from Former Editions, a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play. To Which are Added Glossarial and Other Notes, By Knight, Dyce, Douce, Collier, Halliwell, Hunter, and Richardson. Edited by George Long Duyckinck. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., n.d. C 1885. Complete set in eight volumes. Uniform cloth bindings measure 6.75 x 4 , 12mos. History of Drama; Life of Shakespeare; Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure; Comedy of Errors; Love's Labour's Lost; Midsummer Night's Dream; Merchant of Venice As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; Winter's Tale King John; Richard II; Henry IV Part 1; Henry IV Part 2; Henry V Henry VI Part 1; Henry VI Part 2; Henry VI Part 3; Richard III; Henry VIII Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Pericles; Poems; Sonnets. In good condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines scuffed; gilt lettering normally dulled/soiled, but all legible. Top edges of text-blocks gilt. Some scattered pencil underlining through a few volumes. Toning in margins; normal instances of age-staining. Normal off-setting on tissue guards from frontispieces. Bindings intact. Please see photos. George Long Duyckinck (1823 1863) was a New York City writer. He attended Geneva College and then entered New York University, and graduated in 1843. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. After the completion of his legal studies he traveled extensively in Europe in 1847 1848, and on his return became joint editor with his brother Evert of The Literary World, afterward becoming joint author with his brother of the Cyclopaedia of American Literature. He then revisited Europe, and, on his return in 1857, entered on a separate career of authorship in a congenial department. During the 1850s, the Duyckinck brothers were the unofficial heads of the New York literary scene. Complete set. Each volume includes a frontispiece. RARES1885ABCB - 12/25 - HK2973.
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