Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, & Sonnets [Works Of Shakespeare The Savoy Edition] de William Shakespeare - 1933

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 1085 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white photographs and colour illustrations throughout. Binding is shaky, plate to page 740 detached but still present. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Scratches to both boards.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Tremendous illustrated 'Savoy' edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Including all his plays and his sonnets plus his longer poems, the Rape of Lucrece etc. Printed in double columns. With a brief biography. With 28 colour images, including the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare and fold out images of famous paintings of the plays by Artists such as Landseer, Gilbert, Millais and others. Plus numerous b/w reproductions of photographs of actors in costume. Fine binding, full read morocco leather with gilt and blind-stamped decoration to cover with W. S. initials. Raised bands to spine. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. 8vo. (220x160mm) [xxxviii] 1085pp. Rubbing to edges of spine and corners. Very light, occasional spotting within. Contents clean and binding sound. Good+