The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare. With a life by Thomas Campbell. A new edition.. This item is unavailable.The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare. With a life by Thomas Campbell. A new edition.

Large thick 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, half-title, plates; offsetting, spotting or foxing to front & back leaves. Original full dark green morocco, elaborate gilt-stamping, raised bands, gilt-spine compartments, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets; joints professionally reinforced, corners showing, rubbed. Ownership inscription (obviously pre-fore-edge) “To D.J. Brakenridge Esq., M.D., with the very kind regards and best wishes of John Strathy, 12 April 1873. Very good. With a split two-way fore-edge painting featuring two Shakespearian scenes and a portrait. This painting is painted by Lindsay Brufton (for Harrington’s). Commissioned by or for Harrington’s (with their cost-codes) probably in the mid-to-late 1990s. PROVENANCE: D.J. Brakenridge Esq., M.D. — should be Dr. David James Brakenridge (often spelled Brakenridge or Brakinridge, M.D., F.R.C.P.E.) was a prominent 19th-century Scottish physician based in Edinburgh, who around 1875 served on official managing bodies like the Royal Edinburgh Asylum and published influential medical/clinical observations on quinine, scarlatina, and disorders of the reproductive and circulatory systems. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (F.R.C.P.E.).…