Friday, March 16, 2012

Ca. 1885 William Shakespeare - Selected Dramatic Poetry - Publisher's Decorative Cloth

CA. 1885

THE BEAUTIES OF SHAKESPEARE
REGULARLY SELECTED FROM EACH PLAY
WITH A GENERAL INDEX

AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF CELEBRATED QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ GORGEOUS DECORATIVE VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ FULL-PAGE PLATES ~ CLASSIC POETRY ~ VERY CLEAN BOOK ***


New York: Hurst and Company, no date, circa 1885.

• measures about 7.25'' x 5''
• original publisher's decorative blue cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• floral patterned endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with numerous full-page plates of multiple vignette engravings
• red-line border to all text pages
• 345 pages

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