William Shakespeare
The Works
7 Volume SET
FINE BOYDELL ENGRAVINGS

1887

William George Clark and William Aldis Wright

THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL AFTER THE BOYDELL ILLUSTRATIONS

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

New York: A.W. Lovering, 1887.

Complete in 7 volumes. Bound in dark green gilt stamped cloth, with decorative inner boards and endpapers, fine Boydell engravings and red page edges.

Volumes measure 61/4 x 41/8 inches

Volume I: [10], 513, [2] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving.

Volume II: [8], 454, [4] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving.

Volume III: [10], 535, [2] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving.

Volume IV: [8], 496, [2] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving.

Volume V: [8], 461, [4] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving. 

Volume VI: [8], 471, [2] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving. 

Volume VII: [8], 476, [6] + 1 tissue guarded frontis engraving.

In very good condition with volumes showing minor shelf wear, a faint stain to the upper corner of back cover of volume 6, a small chip to the top edge of the back end paper of volume 5, faint stain to outer edges of pages 257-270 of volume 5 which looks like it could be some bleed when the page edges were painted red. All volumes have contemporary ink inscriptions to first front endpapers and sporadic pencil notations here and there (erasable).

A nice, complete set.