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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM:
The New Nonesuch Shakespeare:
The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare.
The Text and order of the first folio with quarto variants & a choice of modern readings noted marginally:
to which are added Pericles and the first quartos of six of the plays with three plays of doubtful authorship:
also the poems according to the original quartos and octavos.
A new introduction by Ivor Brown.
Four volumes;
Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, Poems.

The Nonesuch Press. 1953
Tall 8vo.
Marbled hardback covers with gilt to brown cloth spine.
In very good condition.
Some very slightly sunned.
One inside page publishers error corner cut.
Very clean and tight copies.
4 vols.
Half title headpieces and dedication in woodcut by R. Stone.
Published and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Coronation.
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