New Century Shakespeare (24 volumes)

SHAKESPEARE

Verlag: Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

SHAKESPEARE. The New Century Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright. Boston: Dana Estes, 1900-01. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, silk boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $4800.Limited "Edition de Grand Luxe" of the "New Century" edition, number 184 of 500 copies, "copiously and artistically illustrated, with an authoritative text," with over 220 engraved plates.This edition was designed as "a complete edition de luxe, in the best sense of the term first-class and faultless in every detail of mechanical execution, copiously and artistically illustrated, with an authoritative text, and amply furnished with explanatory and critical matter in keeping with its outward elegance and beauty." The text is the Cambridge edition, in its latest revised form (1891-93) by William Wright, following the text of the 1623 folio. The illustrations include 21 etchings of Shakespeare's heroines, after "notable paintings by the leading artists of Great Britain, made for the proprietors of the London Graphic." Accompanied by a general Glossary to Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce and the Life of Shakespeare by W. J. Rolfe. Jaggard, 555. A handsome set in fine condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 126032

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Titel: New Century Shakespeare (24 volumes)
Erscheinungsdatum: 1900
Einband: Hardcover