Description: I have here for sale nine beautifully bound books containing the most well known plays the world has seen! There are Volumes I, II, IV-X of a beautiful fine binding 10 volume set entitled THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, the text revised by the Rev Alexander Dyce. It was published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co, London in 1891. It is a sixth edition. Each volume contains: Vol I Life etc, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for MeasureVol II - The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, Love's Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of VeniceVol IV - King John, King Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, King Henry VVol V - King Henry VI Part I, II and III, King Richard III, King Henry VIIIVol VI - Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; and Romeo and JulietVol VII - Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; and HamletVol VIII - King Lear; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; and CymbelineVol IX - Pericles; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Venus and Adonis; Lucrece; Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; and The Phoenix and TurtleVol X - GlossaryVolume III is missing. All bound in half red leather on blue and gilt marbled hardboards. Spines have 5 gilt raised bands, gilt motifs and lettering. Very minimal wear to the heads and tails and to corners. Boards in very good/fine condition. All boards firm. Matching marble endpapers. Gilt top edge to pages. Some spotting to the page edges. Internally very clean and bound tightly. Vol I - xii, 556 pagesVol II - 422 pagesVol IV - 522 pagesVol V - 576 pagesVol VI - 485 pagesVol VII - 437 pagesVol VIII - 512 pages Vol IX - 447 pagesVol X - 519 pages. 22 cm x 15 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 119.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-12-21T14:36:42.000Z
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 30 days
Binding: Fine Binding
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Fiction Subject: Poetry, Theatre & Scripts
Author: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & REV ALEXANDER DYCE
Region: Europe
Original/Reproduction: Original
Publisher: SWAN SONNESCHEIN AND CO
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1891
