The Complete Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare], Revised from the Original Editions with Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play: Tragedies (Volume II)
Volume II (of IV) only. [1860]. 496pp, plus 33 steel engraved plate illustrations. Half bound in green leather over marbled paper boards, gilt titles on five-banded spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Tall 4to. Boards rubbed and a little chipped at edges, rounded on corners, cracked along joints, some scuffing especially around spine head, second title label absent. Front hinge cracked. Ex university library with call number on spine, usual marking on front endpaper. Some light spotting to pages, especially prelims. A substantial and handsome volume. Volume II of Tallis's impressive and elegantly illustrated issue of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, containing Shakespeare's tragedies.