Gallery to Shakespeare's Dramatic Works. In Outlines Invented and Engraved by Moritz Retzsch.

[SHAKESPEARE, William] & RETZSCH, Moritz.

Published by LeipzigPublished by Ernest Fleischer ., 1847

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FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. (23 x 29 cm). Contemporary full purple morocco by Orrock & Romanes (Edinburgh), their binder's ticket to front pastedown, sides ruled and decorated in gilt, spine with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments, gilt inner-dentelles, all edges gilt. Text in German and English. Two title-pages (in German and English), engraved frontispiece and 100 engraved plates. Ex libris Charles Plummer of Middlestead, with his engraved armorial book-plate to front pastedown. Some light rubbing to extremities, boards ever so slightly bowed, occasional light foxing, one plate amateurishly coloured, generally a very good copy in a handsome Scottish binding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gallery to Shakespeare's Dramatic Works. In Outlines Invented and Engraved by Moritz Retzsch.
• Publisher: LeipzigPublished by Ernest Fleischer .
• Publication Date: 1847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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