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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1895 publication date, no indication of later printings in this edition. Green cloth with brown pictorial stamping and gilt titles. Boards clean, edges a bit rubbed. Spine ends rubbed, fraying; heel gently bumped. Spine darkened, gilt titles faded. Binding firm. Text block toned. Pencil gift inscription on front end paper, dated 1896. Contents clean, otherwise unmarked..

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1900, 1900. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; LC: PR2877; OCLC: 5463667 ; decorated cloth ; darkened ; top of spine chipped ; title page missing ; Contents : The tempest -- A misummer night's dream -- The winter's tale -- Much ado about nothing -- As you like it -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- The merchant of Venice -- Cymbeline -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- v.2 -- All's well that ends well -- The taming of the shrew -- The comedy of errors -- Meadure for measure -- Twelfth night, or what you will -- Timon of Athens -- Romeo and Juliet -- Othello -- Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; front hinge starting ; pencillings ; top edge gilt ; reading copy ; POOR.

Philadelphia and New York: Published by Bradford and Inskeep; and Inskeep and Bradford, 1813., 1813.. Fair. - Octavo, 6-7/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Two volumes uniformly bound in early brown calf with gilt titled leather labels and gilt rules on the spines. The warped covers are rubbed and scuffed and the leather is splitting along the joints. There is heavy chipping to the second volume's spine with partial loss of that volume's title label. 283 pages & 305 pages respectively, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of William Shakespeare, engraved by Edwin after a painting by Zoust, at the front of the first volume. The hinges are cracking and there is a small piece out from the top of the front endpaper of the first volume. Several signatures are slightly pulled. The edges of the first and last few pages of each volume are darkened and there is scattered foxing throughout with occasional light dampstaining. A complete set which collates perfectly with Welch 744, including the presence… Read More