Stockdale’s Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, The Whole of His Dramatic Works; with Explanatory Notes

by William Shakespeare

$2,500 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

London: John Stockdale, 1784. Thick octavo, measuring 9.25 x 5.5 inches: 16 , 2 , 1079, 1 . Full contemporary red morocco ruled in gilt, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt-ruled dentelles, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, text printed in two columns, one page of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Two bookplates to front pastedown, early ink inscription to preliminary

• Binding: Leather

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