The Works of William Shakespeare ; with Copious Notes, Glossary, Life & Etc. IN FOUR VOLUMES

This is a heavy four volume set - packed weight 6.2 kg and postage will be at cost, Extra postage will be requested and the order only dispatched if extra postage accepted. Within the UK postage will be £12.00. - for outside the UK please email for postage cost. lxxvi + 799 + 852 + 803 + 844 pages including glossarial index. Very attractive beige full leather covered binding with thin impressed gilt coach-line decoration to outer surfaces of boards, ornate gilt tooling to board edges a bit faded off to top edges. Cross-banded spines have had ornate gilt tooling which has mainly come off, title impressings legible to spine but no gilt - we suspect there have been labels to there segments which are lost. Some rubbing to the spines with a few dark marks & slight vertical lines, some surface rubbing to cross-bands . Light rubs & marks to boards commensurate with age. Ornate attractive maroon & turquoise marbling to page-edges and end-papers to match, end-paper marbling is a little darker, top page-edges marbling is a little dulled. Volume I has narrow cracks to outer hinges causing a light wobble to both & 2mm loss to top spine-end, Volume II has a cracked rear hinge as above with a 3cm crack to tyop top of the front hinge, Volume III has a crack to rear hinge without much wobble & a 6mm chip to top spine-end, Volume IV has no hinge cracks. Slight brown blotching to the rear of flyleaf in each volume. Pages have a slight wave to the touch upon inspection. Text is very clean & binding sound in each case. …