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Shakespeare the Biography
London, 2005, in-8, 546pp, reliure éditeur, jaquette illustrée, Très bel exemplaire! 546pp
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The Works of Shakspere (sic). With notes. Imperial edition. With illustrations on Steel from pictures by C.W. Cope, W. P. Frith, C. R. Leslie, Vernon and others. (A biography of William Shakespeare by C. Knight... revised). In 2 volumes, complete with 44 engraved plates.
London, Virtue & Co, n.d. (1873-76), in-folio. Volume 1: 800 p. + 26 engraved plates / Volume 2: 778 p. + 18 engraved plates, pages printed with double col., with usual aging to the paper, in all a clean and fresh copy, plates on heavy paper without stains, full brown morocco, richly gilt on spine and both covers, all edges gilt, a fine copy with only a few traces of use to the corners of the bindings, gilt edges.
A superb copy of this ‘Imperial edition’ with fine steel engravings with all the original tissue guards. The notes are revised by the great Shakespearian critic Charles Knight. Volume I: with a notice of the original editions of the plays. - Comedies - Histories. 1 frontispiece portrait + 1 engraved titlepage + 24 plates / Volume II: Histories - Tragedies - Poems - Plays ascribed to Shakespeare - A brief notice of opinion on the writing of Shakespeare - Indexes. 1 engraved title page + 17 plates. British Museum general catalogue of printed books vol. 220 (London 1964 ed.) col. 26. Image disp.
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