Shakespeare, William. Selection of Plays. W.P. Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell, Southwark Street. S.W. Partridge and Co. Old Bailey. Samppson, Low, Marston and Co. Ltd. Anthony Traherne & Co. Ltd. Adelphi. [London]. 1905-45.

14 volumes. Printed in 8-point. As You Like It; Romeo and Juliet; Coriolanus; Hamlet; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Othello; Titus  Andronicus; Rape of Lucrece; King henry the Sixth, parts one, two, and three; King Henry the Eigth; and King Richard the Third. Each complete volume from 241 to 457 pages. Decorative end papers. Top edges gilt. Some page blocks with slight old staining but not affecting text.  Presented in a beautiful miniature mahogany carved and French-polished bookstand, in very good condition. 50 x 70 mm. Uniformly bound in publishers' full chocolate brown calf. Spines with gilt capitalized titling.  Of the Waistcoat Pocket Classics set of Shakespeare, "We have seen only one complete set of it, attractively housed in a shelved leather case which belonged to the great Charlie Chaplin", Bondy, 122-3. Welsh, 6254, 6282, 6347.