Tuesday, September 2, 2014

1881 COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

1881

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
INCLUDING COMEDIES, TRAGEDIES, HISTORIES, POEMS, SONNETS, INDEX

ILLUSTRATED

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ STEEL ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC LITERATURE ***

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1881.

• book measures about 10'' x 7.5''
• gorgeous publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• ornate embossed gilt, red, and black stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• coated gray endpapers
• extra vignette title page and frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full-page engravings on steel, each with tissue-guard

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