[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. The Works. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, MCMXXXIV [1934].
Hardcover. First thus. Full leather. Presented in slipcase. Large format, quarto (250 x 170mm), pp. [x], 1263. English text. Printed on India paper in double columns. Exquisite contemporary full polished calf binding, signed by Riviere. Spine with five raised bands and fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Tudor rose centre tools in four compartments. Twin morocco lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Shakespeare coat of arms to front board gilt. All page edges gilt. Intense red 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: a near immaculate copy presented in the most exquisite binding with Shakespeare's coat of arms displayed on front cover. Scarce thus.
