20 Vol. Leatherbound Set- Bell's Edition, Dramatik Writings Of Will. Shakespeare

New York The Century Co. 1896. An oversized set in dark brown leather with four spine bands and gilt lettering. Blue gray marbleized papers. 12 1/2" H x 8 7/8" W x 2 1/8" D Conditi...

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, various publishing dates. Bound in tan leather with red and brown with gilt spines. Marbelized end papers. All with bookplates ins...

London, The Shakespeare Press for John Major and Robert Jennings, 5 Vol. set, 1828. Dark green leather with gilt. Gilt edges, red end papers, ribbon markers. Each volume published on...

New York, Johnson, Fry & Co. Steel plate engravings. Brown with black embossed boards, brown and gilt spines with marbled end papers. Gilt edges. 11" H x 8" D x 1 3/4" W Condition...

AUTHOR: WARD, Mrs. Humphry [Mary Augusta]. TITLE: The Writings of Mrs. Humphry Ward. PUBLISHER: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. DESCRIPTION: AUTOGRAPH EDITION. 16 vols., ...

A beautiful and scarce 'Bell's Edition of Shakespeare', the vanishingly scarce large paper variant, illustrated with engraved plates. The very scarce complete twenty volume set. A large paper edition, uniformly bound in full morocco. In 1785, John Bell began to issue the 36 separate plays of Shakespeare individually, collecting them here in twenty volumes in 1788 as the 'Dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere'. The set is scarcely found complete. The first two volumes here are a remarkably comprehensive and broad 'Prolegomena' to Shakespeare's works, and offer interesting analysis of Shakespeare from an era where many of his plays were often interpreted differently, both in their production and in their critical reception. The subsequent eighteen volumes consist of the plays themselves, along with notes from Samuel Johnson and George Stevens, a highlight of this particular edition. Volumes I & II: Prolegomena To The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakespeare. Nine plates to volume I, and eight to volume II. Volume III: The Tempest and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Four plates. Volume IV: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Much Ado About Nothing. Four plates. Volume V: Measure for Measure and A Comedy of Errors. Four plates. Volume VI: Love's Labour's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Four plates. Volume VII: The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It. Four plates. Volume VIII: The Taming of The Shrew and All's Well That End's Well. Four plates. Volume IX: Twelfth Night and Winter's Tale. Four plates. Volume X: Macbeth and King John. Four plates. Volume XI: King Richard The Second...

The Works of Shakespeare Complete in 7 duodecimo 3/4 leather bound volumes with marbleized boards and end papers, top edges gilt. A charming set in attractive original condition. Fro...

15 Volumes. William Shakespeare. The Plays. With corrections & Illustrations of various commentators to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Fourth Edition Wi...