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Title
THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Edited by William Aldis Wright.
In Nine Volumes
[Second and Third Cambridge Shakespeare Edition – Fine Binding by Wells of Winchester]
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Author
William SHAKESPEARE
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Year of Publication
1891
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Publisher
London: Macmillan and Co.
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full description see below - after all photographs
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Description:
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891, Third Cambridge Edition (Vol I), 1891 Second Edition (Vol II-IV), 1892 Second Edition (Vol V-VIII), 1893 Second Edition (Vol IX).
A nicely bound set of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare edited by William Aldis WRIGHT.
Third edition of the Cambridge Shakespeare. Nine octavo volumes.
Handsomely bound by Wells of Winchester (stamp to the reverse of the front paste down) in half maroon morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines panelled and lettered in gilt with four gilt lined compartments, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Nicely bound volumes in half leather with gilt decoration to the spines, marble paper pastedowns.
William Aldis Wright (1831 - 1914), was an English writer and editor. The Works of William Shakespeare (1863-6), edited by William George Clark, with at first W. Aldis Wright and later John Glover as collaborators, was published in nine volumes by Macmillan, but printed at the University Press, so that it became known as the Cambridge Shakespeare.
This important edition was based on a thorough collation of the four Folios and of all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, and of subsequent editions and commentaries (preface), so that in textual matters it constitutes a virtual variorum.
Prefaces provide accounts of the early textual history of each of the works, and the volumes include the texts of first quartos of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, as well as the quartos relating to Henry V, The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI), and Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI). Clark and Wright used the Cambridge edition as the basis for the influential one-volume Globe Shakespeare.
Provenance: from the library of Robert Arthur Johnson with his plate to the front of each volume.
Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – good condition – gilt titles to spine with some wear and marks.
- Joints – very good condition – solid.
- Corners – good condition – gently worn and bumped.
- Boards – good condition – worn, with minor marks, marbled paper covered boards.
- Page edges – good condition – all edge gilt.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – very good condition – solid.
- Paste downs – good condition – marbled, with bookplate for Robert Arthur Johnson to the front.
- End papers – good condition – marbled.
- Title page – good condition – gently tanned.
- Pages – good condition – gently tanned.
- Binding – good condition – attractive.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1891
Binding: Hardback
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