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Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since July 29, 1998
Oxford edition, later printings. 8vo. Three volumes. Printed on india paper. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in full red polished calf, double gilt rules to covers, gilt lettering and decoration to spines. Marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A near fine set, slightly faded to spines. Frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare to each volume. Seller Inventory # 44830
Title: COMEDIES; TRAGEDIES; HISTORIES AND POEMS The...
Publisher: Oxford University Press -40
Publication Date: 1935
Binding: Hardcover
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
An attractively bound set of the Oxford Shakespeare, using the seminal text edited by William James Craig in 1891 and including an introduction by Swinburne. This edition was first published from 1911 to 1912. 3 vols, octavo (175 x 114 mm). Portrait frontispieces after the Chandos, First Folio, and Stratford-upon-Avon bust likenesses. Contemporary red half morocco for Charles E. Lauriat of Boston, spines lettered in gilt, compartments framed in gilt and stamped with central gilt device, red cloth sides ruled in gilt, red endpapers, edges gilt. Bindings bright, slight bowing and rubbing, particularly to cloth sides of Histories. A very good set. Seller Inventory # 178456
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