The Works.: Edited by William Aldis Wright.
de SHAKESPEARE, William
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London: Macmillan & Co.,, 1893-95. A monument of editorial judgement and accurate scholarship Edition De Luxe of the Cambridge Shakespeare, one of 500 unnumbered sets only, printed on handmade paper with each play in a separate volume, here very handsomely bound. The set is from the library of the American tin tycoon William Bateman Leeds (1861-1908), with his bookplate in every volume. The Cambridge Shakespeare, first published between 1863 and 1866, has "become the standard text... the introductions contain the safest guide as to authorities for the text and the notes form a complete apparatus criticus of the text... it is a monument of editorial judgement and accurate scholarship" (Ward & Waller, p. 280). 40 volumes, royal octavo (256 x 172 mm). Contemporary green morocco by Zaehnsdorf for C. Scribner's Sons, spines lettered in gilt, concentric gilt panelling to covers, gilt turn-ins, brown silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Title pages in red and black. Spines lightly sunned, contents partly unopened, else a fine set. A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds., The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. V, 1964.
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- The Works.
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- SHAKESPEARE, William
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- London: Macmillan & Co.,
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- 1893-95
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