SHAKSPERE [SHAKESPEARE], William:. The complete works of Shakspere, revised from the original editions with historical introductions and notes explanatory & critical, and a life of the poet by J. O. Hallowell. London: London Printing & Publishing. Undated (? c. 1860, 1860.

Price: US$26.75 + shipping

Description: Vol. 1 (Tragedies) only. 8vo. 230 pp. 12 steel engraved plates plus extra engraved title page. Original blue cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Spine bumped & ends a bit chipped, cover a little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, lacks free front endpaper, name on back of frontispiece, very slight foxing otherwise VG

Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom

Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works Of Shakespeare Revised From The Original Editions With AMemoir And Essay On His Genius By Barry Cornwall. The London Printing And Publishing Co Ltd, 1860.

Price: US$222.96 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition thus. 3 vols in 2 complete. Narrow 4to. Unpaginated. Numerous full page engravings throughout. Green half leather with green cloth boards,raised gilt bands and red label on spine, gilt lettering within label. White eps. Marbling to edges of pages. Top/bot/edges of spine and corners rubbed, a few marks on covers. Occasional foxing throughout. A tight and attractive set. VG.

Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Shakespeare, William & J. O. Halliwell. The Complete Works of Shakspere Revised from the Original Editions with Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play, also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and A Life of the Poet. London The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1860, 1860.

Price: US$382.21 + shipping

Description: Reprints. Originally appearing under one of publisher John Tallis's earlier incarnations, which ceased to exist sometime around 1853. Complete in 8 volumes in the original publisher's blue cloth, elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt with gilt to all edges of each text block, and lemon yellow endpapers to all volumes other than VI's, which have been devoted to ads. Including the Tragic, Comic, Historical and Doubtful Plays. Undated but circa 1860. Each section of plays has its own frontispiece and illustrated title page and there are 89 additional engravings, mainly famous actors of the eighteenth and nineteenth century in various roles. Each section is separately paginated, 496, 576, 488 and 484 pages respectively. The books are reasonably firmly bound, the cloth is lightly marked and rubbed, the extremities are bumped and the spines are slightly toned, one has a puncture wound. The text blocks are slightly foxed, age toned and musty, with minor cracking at points, closed tears and chips to a few page edges and minor damage and creasing to some tissue guards. On the whole an attractive set and a rarity complete, in this format and in the original cloth, most that appear in commerce and those in institutional holdings having been bound up in 4 volumes, or without the Doubtful Plays.

Seller: Jonathan Frost Rare Books Limited, Liverpool, United Kingdom