"With original introductions and notes to each play; and a biographical sketch of his life by Henry Stebbing, also an inquiry into the authenticity of the Shakespere portraits by Abraham Wivell…" 

Volumes measure 10" x 6 3/4" with leather bindings, gilt decorated spine and covers, all page edges gilt, 1160 pages, 51 engravings on steel.

Name Mary R Birchard penciled on front endpaper with inked notations of her birth and death (1876 in the Ashtabula River railroad disaster;) the name John C DeWitt is stamped on front endpaper of each volume.

Undated 1840s printing.

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