SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
Complete Works. (c. 1904) 2 set. [Large Revolving
Bookcase)
Glasgow & NY David Bryce and Son (1904) Forty volumes. Dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry, this complete set of Shakespeare was part of a series of literary sets or individual volumes dedicated to her. Of the Ellen Terry series, Louis Bondy wrote that these volumes are "Bryce's greatest achievement as a leading promoter of miniature books," and, in particular, he describes the Shakespeare as the most prodigious of these sets. (Bondy, p.114). Most of the sets were printed in 1904. Included are all the plays, the sonnets, a biographical sketch, and glossary. Bound in gilt stamped and housed in the original wooden 8-compartment revolving DARK wooden bookcase, which is difficult to obtain. Some chipping to top edges of the case and shelves damaged. (Spielmann 459, American Art Association 182; Welsh 6264). (2 1/8 by 1
Dark Turquoise cloth with floral gilt stamped spines.
1/2: 55x38mm.). The set contains..
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Love's Labour's Lost
The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream
Comedies The Comedy of Errors Measure for Measure‡ The Merchant of Venice. Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew Twelfth Night, or What You Will The Winter's Tale The Two Gentlemen of Verona or The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Histories
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, part 1.
Henry IV. part 2
Henry V
Henry VI part 1 Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Richard
Henry VIII.
Tragedies
Romeo and Juliet
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth Hamlet
Troilus and Cressidat
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
The Tempest
Poems
Sonnets and Poems Venus and Adonis
Other
Biography and Glossary
VG
Sold by a collector in a public auction at Bonhams, 9th November 2022.
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