[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Dyce's 6 vol. "Works of... Shakespeare" London: 1857

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Shakespeare, William. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. The Text Revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In Six Volumes. London: Edward Moxon. 1857. 8vo. 6 volumes. With the half-titles. Engraved portrait in Volume 1. Cont. full green pebbled calf, possibly a publisher's deluxe binding. A.e.g. Extremities a bit rubbed but a very nice set. $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)


    The first edition of the best known work of scholar Alexander Dyce. To quote the DNB, "a vast number of Shakespearean students regard it as the most readable and satisfactory of all the editions of the dramatist." It is also a notable publication of Edward Moxon, the important publisher of English literature. The original 1857 edition is quite scarce.
    
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