Shakespeare, William. Works. Andersons, Edinburgh Ltd. for Allied Newspapers. [London]. 1932.

Shakespeare, William. Works. Andersons, Edinburgh Ltd. for Allied Newspapers. [London]. 1932. Circa 1932. De Luxe red full leather bindings. Complete set of 40 volumes. Comprising: the tempest; The two gentlemen of Verona; The merry wives of Windsor; Measure for measure; The comedy of errors; Much ado about nothing; Love's labour's lost; A midsummer night's dream; The merchant of Venice; As you like it; The taming of the shrew; All's well that ends well; Twelfth night; The winter's tale; 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; Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Pericles [Prince of Tyre];Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets and poems; Glossary. Original plywood 3 shelf free-standing bookshelf.Printed in Scotland and published by Allied Newspapers to commemorate the opening of the The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon opened on 23 April, 1932 on the site adjacent to the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (opened 19 April 1879), which had been destroyed by fire on 6 March 1926. Usually found in rexine (imitation black morocco), often with a simple 3 tier oak bookshelf, this de-luxe edition in red leather with superior gilt work to spine. Original red calf (somre slight rubbing). The text and the design for the spines was formerly created and published as the 1904 Ellen Terry edition by David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, who went out of business just at te end of World War One in 1918. Andersons acquired manyof 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.  149 Firsts2024