SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Complete Works. (c. 1904) [Large revolving bookcase] Glasgow & NY. David Bryce and Son. (1904) Forty volumes.

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

 

Complete Works. (c. 1904) [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 silver-gilt stamped RED (that have an armorial shield with a knight's helmet above to front cover) with silver-gilt stamped decoration and title to spines.

 

Housed in the original wooden 8-compartment revolving light- wooden bookcase which is difficult to obtain. Some chipping to top edges of the case (Spielmann 459; American Art Association 182; Welsh

 

6264). (2 1/8 by 1 1/2; 55x38mm.). The set contains..

 

Comedies

 

All's Well That Ends Well

 

As You Like It

 

The Comedy of Errors

 

Love's Labour's Lost

 

Measure for Measure+

 

The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

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 III Henry VIII

 

Tragedies

 

Romeo and Juliet

 

Coriolanus

 

Titus Andronicus

 

Timon of Athenst[i] Julius Caesar

Macbeth [1]

 

Hamlet

 

Troilus and Cressida

 

King Lear

 

Othello

 

Antony and Cleopatra

The Tempest

 

Cymbeline

 

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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