SHAKESPEARE, William.

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The Works. Edition De Luxe of the Cambridge Shakespeare, one of 500 unnumbered sets only. This set is finely bound and profusely extra-illustrated, making it a particularly luxurious copy of this significant edition.The Cambridge Shakespeare, first published between 1863 and 1866, has "become the standard text... the introductions contain the safest guide as to authorities for the text and the notes form a complete apparatus criticus of the text... It is a monument of editorial judgement and accurate scholarship" (Ward & Waller, p. 280).

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