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 gilt stamped Forest Green Cloth with floral gilt stamped spines and housed in the original 8-compartment revolving wooden bookcase, which can be difficult to obtain. Minor slight chipping to top edges of the swivel case. (Spielmann 459; American Art Association 182;

 

Welsh 6264), (21/8 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

 

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

 

The Taming of the Shrew

The Winter's Tale

The Two Gentlemen of Verone or The Two Noble Kinomen

 

Histories

 

King John

 

Henry IV, part 1

 

Henry IV, part 2

Henry V

 

Henry VI, part 1

Henry VI, part 2

 

Henry Vi part 3

 

Richard

 

Henry Vill

 

Tragedies

 

Romeo and Juliet

 

Coriolanus

 

Titus Andronicus

 

Timon of Athenst

 

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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