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Description
Full Title: The Comedies of Shakespeare.
Author(s): William Shakespeare; Algernon Charles Swinburne (General Introduction); W. J. Craig (Preface).
Publisher & Date: London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1932.
Pages: xxxviii, [2], 1128 pp.
Dimensions (Approx): 18.5 x 13 cm.
Illustrations: Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare.
Description:
A handsome volume, bound by Riviere & Son for St. Hugh's School (Faringdon, Oxfordshire?), and presented as a prize for reading in July 1935. Bound in half calf and cloth-covered boards, with gilt armorial motif to centre of upper board. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration. Binding remains sound and firm with a little rubbing to extremities, bumping to lower corner of upper board, some fading to cloth, spine sunned to brown. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of the above School to front pastedown, binder's stamped signature to lower corner verso of ffep. A little foxing to front/rear blanks. Pages lightly age-toned otherwise generally clean and tidy throughout.
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