[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)]. The Plays; Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes. London : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, T. Egerton, J. Cuthell, J. Scatcherd, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, J. and W.T. Clarke, J. Booker, J. Booth, J. Richardson, J.M. Richardson, R.H. Evans, J. Mawman, R. Scholey, J. Bohn, R. Pheney, Baldwin and Co., Baynes and Son, Newman and Co., Harding and Co., Ogle and Co., T. Hamilton, W. Wood, Whitmore and Fenn, T. Tegg, W. Mason, G. Mackie, J.H. Bohte, T. Wilkie, G. and W.B. Whittaker, Kingsbury and Co., Hurst, Robinson and Co., Simpkin and Co., and R. Saunders, and J. Wicksteed; also for Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; Wilson and Sons, York; by Stirling and Slade, A. Black, P. Brown, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh. 1823.
Hardcover. New edition. Leather-bound. Complete in 10 volumes. Duodecimo (12°)(160 x 100mm), pp. [xci], 361; (4), 380; (4), 403; (4), 378; (4), 455; (4), 353; (4), 385; (4), 461; (4), 455; (4), 394. English text. Exquisitely bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt with three raised bands, marbled paper covered boards, speckled page edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Portrait frontispiece in vol. 1. Each play with a divisional title. Contents arranged thus: v. 1. Some Account of the Life &c. / by Mr. Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night -- v. 2. Measure for Measure; Much a do about Nothing; Midsummer Night's Dream; Love's Labour's Lost -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well; Taming of the Shrew -- v. 4. Winter's Tale; Comedy of Errors; Macbeth; King John -- v. 5. King Richard II; King Henry IV, part 1 King Henry IV, part 2; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI, part 1; King Henry VI, part 2; King Henry VI, part 3 -- v. 7. King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida -- v. 8. Timon of Athens; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra -- v. 9. Cymbeline; Titus Andronicus; Pericles; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello.
Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure with all hinges intact. Slight rubbing to boards. Textblock largely very well preserved with some light age related tanning. Vol. 1 with annotations neatly inked to blank endpapers.
