[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. The Works. London: Macmillan and Co., 1905-1924.
Reprint of the 'Cambridge Shakespeare'. Complete in nine volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (23cm x 15.5cm). Pp. xlvi, 520; xv, 563; viii, 516; xviii, 719; xx, 747; xvii, 646; xiv, 611; xiv, 767; xxxvii, 772. English text, edited by William Aldis Wright. Handsomely bound in half morocco by Bumpus. Spine titles gilt in second and third compartments. Marbled boards. Top page edges gilt, other edges uneven. Half-titles present. Title-pages printed in red & black. Contents: (1) The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; (2) Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer-Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; (3) The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well that Ends Well; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale; (4) King John; King Richard II; King Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; King Henry V; (5) King Henry VI, Parts 1-3; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; (6) Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; (7) Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; (8) King Lear; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; (9) Pericles; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and the Turtle. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact. Slight marking to covers. Interiors very well-preserved, some light spotting confined to endpapers. An excellent example.
Notes: A reprint of the "Cambridge Shakespeare," with text based on collation and comparison of the Folio and Quarto editions of Shakespeare's works. William Aldis Wright was an English writer and editor, and his Shakespeare works are well regarded, with his prefaces being particularly thorough with accounts of contextual history of the works included. Wright also edited the 'Globe' edition of Shakespeare's works in 1864; he "was the first editor to give due attention to the Elizabethan usage of words, and the value of this series has been acknowledged by many later editors....learning, accuracy, and common sense combined to make him one of Britain's greatest Shakespearean scholars" (ODNB).
