[Rarebooks] FS - Cowden/Clarke- Works of Shakespeare, 4 Vol. 1875

[Michelle Levick]

>> 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 & CO. Philadelphia, 1875:
> Title pages have decorative first letter of William Shakespeare. Engraved Frontispiece to: Vol. I, Shakespeare (tissue guard, thin vertical 1 1/2 inch tear); Vol. III Richard The III.; 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.  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.  Maroon and blue marbled boards, three-quarter leather. Spine decorated in gilt, five ridges, each numbered and titled in gilt to leather pane, marbled e.p.Volume II 1/2 inch chip of title panel with loss of 'K' and "E" on Shakespeare. intact.  All editions have mild rubbing and to extremities. Previous owner stamp "Charles A Baeder, Philadelpahia, e.p. and pre-title of volumes 2 & 4, volume I, stamped to e.p. and lower side edge of title page. Each is very solidly bound with clean text. 8 vo, 725, 730, 700, 751 pp. 
> $125.00, Media Mail $5.00  OBO
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