
285 pages. Frontispiece engraving. Printed in Scotland and published by Allied Newspapers to commemorate the re-opening of the New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1932, with 1400 seats on the site adjacent to the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (opened 19 April 1879), which had been destroyed by fire on 6 March 1926. Rounded corners. Original gilt and tan decorated endpapers. Originally in a set of 40 volumes. 35 x 50 mm. In rexine (imitation black morocco), original black binding (some mild fading to spine). The text and the design for the spine was formerly created and published as the 1904 Ellen Terry edition by David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, who went out of business just at the end of World War One in 1918. Andersons acquired many of the publishing assets of Bryce and re-published them in the following decades. Bondy, 123. OCLC, 43008884. WorldCat locates 13 copies in the black rexine binding worldwide.