The Works of Shakespeare (The Cambridge Shakespeare) - Nine Volume Set

Nine-volume set, complete. Year: 1891-1893. While published by Macmillan (London/New York), fine print at verso of the FFEPs indicates these volumes were bound by Ringer for Chicago's A. C. McClurg. Contemporary blue half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Covers have light to moderate rubbing, and moderate to heavy edgewear including spots of fraying to edges. Leather is faded to teal at spines. Spines square. Bindings sound. Gilt marbled paper endsheets. Tiny closed tears at fore-edges of ffep and fly leaf of volume seven. Volume eight has a few roughly cut pages. Faint sticker residue at top of ffep's of volumes one and seven; small 'p' penciled next to the date at each title page, and a small penciled hatchmark in the bottom margin of each table of contents, except in volume one. Volume one also has penciled notes at the verso of rfep, and there is a small splatter stain in the bottom margin of page IX (in the preface) of volume four. Interiors else clean; pages toned, texts unmarked. Contents: (1) The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; (2) Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer-Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; (3) The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well that Ends Well; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale; (4) King John; King Richard II; King Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; King Henry V; (5) King Henry VI, Parts 1-3; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; (6) Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; (7) Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; (8) King Lear; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; (9) Pericles; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and the Turtle. …