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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.        Complete Works. (c. 1904) 2 set. [Large Revolving     Bookcase).     Glasgow & NY. David Bryce and Son. (1904) Forty volumes.

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Complete Works. (c. 1904) 2 set. [Large Revolving Bookcase). Glasgow & NY. David Bryce and Son. (1904) Forty volumes.

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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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