The Works. Edited with a scrupulous revision of the text by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. With 66 illustrations selected from the Boydell Gallery.
SHAKESPEARE, William.
Published by London: Bickers & Son, 1887
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A superbly bound set of the first edition of Cowden Clarkes's edited works of Shakespeare, bound by the publisher Bickers and Son with their stamp to the front free endpaper verso. Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-1898) "felt particular 'pride and gratification'" in having edited the works of Shakespeare "as it made her 'the first (and as yet, only) woman editor of our great poet'" (ODNB). Jaggard, pp. 534, 537, & 542. 4 vols, octavo (212 x 132 mm). Finely bound by Bickers and Son in polished tree calf, burgundy and brown morocco labels, richly gilt in compartments, raised bands, roll to boards gilt, pictorial block to front board gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece portrait to volume I, 66 lithographic plates. Title pages printed in red and black. School prize bookplate to front pastedown, ink gift inscription to binder's front blank in volumes 3-4, else nice and clean. Seller Inventory # 168255
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Title: The Works. Edited with a scrupulous revision...
Publisher: London: Bickers & Son, 1887
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The Works of William Shakespeare edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. With 66 illustrations selected from the Boydell Gallery.
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Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
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4 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 15.5 cm); portrait frontispiece, 66 photographic illustrations after original works in the Boydell Gallery, armorial bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., tipped-in contemporary presentation letter in pen; contemporary tee calf, gilt spines in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, all edges gilt, minor wear to extremities, one or two marks to boards, occasional light spotting; [8], lii, [2], 725, [1]; [6], 730;[8], 700; [8], 751, [1]pp. A very handsome, four-volume set of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, his sonnets, and narrative poems, edited with a revision of the text by the husband-and-wife partnership Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, with a useful glossary of key terms and informative preface. Illustrated with 66 photographic plates after original works in the Boydell Gallery, established in 1786 by the engraver and publisher John Boydell (1720-1804) to promote British history painting. The collection focused on the subjects of Shakespeare's plays, and included contributions from Sir Joshua Reynolds, James Northcote, and Richard Westall. Seller Inventory # 113965
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