[Rarebooks] Shakespeare 4 volumes (Cowden - 1875)

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For your consideration: The Works of William Shakespeare, 4 Volumes; by
Clarke, Charles and Mary Cowden, Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of Text;
J.B. Lippincott Philadelphia, 1875: Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden
Clarke; (1787-1877 and 1809-98, respectively). English editors and critics
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke are best known for their varied studies on
William Shakespeare's works. Many of their works emphasized in character
study. Four beautiful 3/4 calf bound volumes, five ridged spine, decorated
in gilt; two brown leather panels with title and numbered edition. Red and
blue Marbled boards, all edges marbled, end papers marbled. All editions
have mild rubbing and scuffing to leather. Previous owners has stamped name
to e.p. and pre-title of volumes 2 & 4, volume I, stamped to e.p. and lower
side edge of title page. Title pages have Illuminated first letter of
William Shakespeare. Engraved Frontispiece to: Vol. I, Shakespeare (tissue
guard, thin vertical 1 1/2 inch tear); Vol. III, Richard The IIIrd.; IV.,
Macbeth. Volume II, has two chips to title panel. Contents: Vol. I.: On the
portrait of Shakespeare. Prefixed as a Frontispiece to the First Edition of
his works in Folio, 1623. Preface; Chronological table of Shakespeare's
Life; Shakespeare's Will; Dedication Prefixed to the First Folio, 1623;
Address, Ditto, Ditto; Lines on the portrait of Shakespeare; The Tempest;
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor;
Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado about Nothing; Love's
Labour's Lost; Midsummer Night's Dream; Merchant of Venice; As You Like It;
Taming of the Shrew; Verbal and sentential glossary indexed. Volume II.,
All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; The Winter's
Tale; King John; King Richard II.; First Part of King Henry IV.; Second Part
of King Henry IV.; King Henry V.; First Part of King Henry VI.; Second Part
of King Henry VI. Volume III.; Third Part of King Henry VI.; Life and Death
of King Richard III.; King Henry VIII.; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo
and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar. Volume IV., (Contents page dog
eared, front inside hinge starting.); Macbeth; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark;
King Lear; Othello, The Moor of Venice;  Anthony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline;
Perciles, Prince of Tyre. Poems: Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, A
Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and Turtle. Published
also by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square, London. Printed by Ballantyne and
Company, Edinburgh and London. Each is very solidly bound with clean text.
In protective brodart archival polyester wraps. 8 vo, 725, 730, 700, 751 pp.
$325.00
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