[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. The Complete Works. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; London: Henry Frowde, n.d. [c.1900].
Hardcover. First edition thus. Full leather. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.), pp. [viii], 1264. English text printed on India paper in double columns. Exquisite contemporary binding of crushed morocco by Riviere for Sherborne School. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. The covers, edges and inner dentelles elaborately gilt ruled and tooled, upper cover with Royal coat of arms of Edward VI blocked in gilt, lower cover with the School Governors’ Seal - The Sherborne Penny - blocked in gilt. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed by Horace Hart. The Plays are arranged in chronological order of their composition. Poems and glossary to rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. An excellent copy, the binding tight and secure with hinges prefectly intact. Very minor marking to covers but still beautifully preserved, the gilt bright. Contents very good with faintest trace of light foxing to just a few leaves. Inscribed by William Thomas Cambray, 1905, to ffep.
