THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1934 FINE TREE CALF BINDING BY RIVIERE

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. The Works. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, MCMXXXIV [1934].

Hardcover. First thus. Full leather. Large format, quarto (255 x 170 x 55mm), pp. [x], 1263. English text in double column, printed on India paper. Exquisite contemporary full polished tree calf binding, signed by Riviere. Spine with five raised bands and fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Twin morocco lettering pieces in second and third compartments. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Half-title present. Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard. Title-page printed in red and black. The Plays are arranged in chronological order of their composition. Poems and glossary to rear.

Condition: Near immaculate copy. Small blemish to upper board, else fine and without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.