The works of Shakespeare SET:3. Three. Vol 1: Comedies, Vol 2:Tragedies, Vol 3: Histories
With a memoir and essay on his genius, by Barry Cornwall, illustrated with engravings on wood, from designs by Kenny Meadows
Condition: Good Several woodcut vignettes throughout, title pp. in red and black, text in double columns. Binding:10.5×6.7, half red morocco over buckram cl., gilt title and dec. to sp., marbled epps., edges thumbed, all edges marbled, covers sl. loose. Condition: Average
Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall with notes and introductions to each play by F.A. Marshall and other Shakespearian Scholars. With numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne.
Condition: Average + Several full-paged woodcut engravings with tissue guards, frontis, prints of woodcut vignettes throughout the book, slight spotting mostly to pl. margins.
Binding: Orig. brown color with a lady made in black and gilt to cover, gilt dec. spine. with a man with a spear in black and gilt, small child made to back cover in black, beveled edges, edges thumbed, spine ends bumped, aeg, text in double columns, sl. foxing.
Special Remarks: Vol’s 2 – 8 available, Vol 1 missing
Condition: Average+. Illustration: Several b/w printed photographic images, colored plates with printed tissue guards, occasional wormholes.
Binding: 10″ x 7″, orig. green cloth with gilt title to spine, wormholes throughout the book, paper is getting brittle, red and black title page, edges thumbed, spine ends frayed, Binding: poor
ILLUSTRATED: Only in vol. XVI (Just So Stories) by the Author, in black and white.
Condition: Good BINDING: Original cloth-backed paper boards, a few volumes slightly soiled or spotted, most spine labels chipped and a little worn, 2 edges uncut, t.e.g.
Binding Condition: Average
COMMENTS: Large 8vo, Volume I signed by Kipling. Printed by R.& R. Clark from the Florence Press type, designed by Herbert P. Horne, and lent by Chatto & Windus, the proprietor of the type. Includes paper title panel on the last blank, laid in. Some foxing and offsetting to endpapers and half-title, a few joints cracking, otherwise a very good set.
– Full black color with gilt title on cover and spine
– Pages yellowed
– Red stamp note on front endpapers of all volumes: “The external boundaries of India as depicted in the maps are neither correct nor authentic”
– Corners and endpapers of some volumes bumped and stained
– Subjects include all wars during the 20th century, world leaders, society
– Numerous black & white and colored illustrations
– Each book is 11 15/16 by 9 inches and about 1 inch thick
– Overall condition: Good
