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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