[Rarebooks] FS: Boydell's SHAKESPEARE with 98 full-page copper engravings, 1791-1803, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $2500 NET

BOYDELL, John (SHAKESPEARE, William). BOYDELL'S GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE... London: Boydell & Company, 
[1791-1803]. First Edition. Large folio (12-1/2" x 16-1/2") bound in 
publisher's full gilt-decorated red morocco, front cover now detached 
but present. Illustrated with an engraved title page, two portraits, and 
98 full- page copper engravings nearly all of which represent various 
scenes from plays, including one engraved by William Blake, and are 
engraved after the major British artists of the day: Reynolds, Romney, 
Opie, Smirke, Northcote, Westall, etc. The finest illustrations ever 
created to accompany Shakespeare, here presented in their original large 
format (the plates were also published as part of a nine-volume folio 
set of Shakespeare's dramatic works). A difficult title to find intact 
as most volumes over the years have been broken for their beautiful 
individual plates which in this volume are quite clean with all tissue 
guards present. Sporadic and usually very mild foxing to the blank 
margins of some plates. One engraving has been laid down. The leather is 
rubbed with some wear, mostly to the spine tips and edges, the front 
cover being detached but present. Contents very clean and attractive in 
handsome binding. (#010563)        $4,000.00

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