Search results for: 'the works'
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. The Works.London : 1903
A particularly handsomely bound set of Goethe's works. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 117225
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JACKSON, Lady Catherine Charlotte. The Works.c.1899
Édition des Aquarelles. Limited to 26 numbered copies for England and America. Lady Jackson (1824-91) was the wife of diplomat Sir George Jackson, known for accompanying Sir Charles Stuart to Germany and entering Paris with him in 1815, and for his efforts to abolish the slave trade. After his death she edited his papers for publication and then turned... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61558
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GAUTIER, Theophile. The Works.New York : 1900
Japanese imperial vellum edition. Limited to 180 numbered copies. Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 62905
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THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. The Sporting Magazine.London : 1793-1870 & 1892
First editions of the first periodical devoted to general sportsmanship, The Sporting Magazine, issued from 1793 until 1870. This complete collection provides an invaluable resource, reflecting the changes in society and attitudes across the turn of the century, and placing them in relation to the pastimes and sports of British society. Each volume... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 128768
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SCOTT, Sir Walter and others. The Cambridge Edition of the Poets.Boston and New York : [1900]
A handsomely bound set with works by Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth and Keats. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 114133
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NOLHAC, Pierre de, and others. James I and VI; Queen Anne; Marie Antoinette; Empress Josephine; Queen Victoria.Paris : 1897-1906
First editions and first editions in English. A handsomely bound set of these lavishly produced biographies, published by Goupil & Cie, the leading art dealership in 19th-century France. James I and Queen Anne are number 420 and 93 respectively from a limited edition of 800 copies on fine paper. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 111444
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 101 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130733
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JONSON, Ben. The Works.London : 1875
An attractively bound late reprint of the Gifford edition of Jonson's works, originally published in 1816. "Gifford's editorial work as a textual scholar is accomplished. He produced various editions of English dramatists Gifford's most notable textual work was on Jonson, of whom he was a fierce partisan. His edition contains forthright attacks on... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 104284
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WILDE, Oscar. The Works.London : 1908-22
First collected edition of Wilde's works, limited to 1,000 sets on handmade paper.
The texts were mostly taken from the last editions to be supervised by the author. Copyright in The Picture of Dorian Gray was held by Charles Carrington, so that volume alone appears with his Paris imprint. In 1922 Methuen announced the discovery of a new play... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 103391
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works.Oxford : 1825
A handsomely bound set of Samuel Johnson's works, part of Pickering's Oxford English Classics series. The edition was superintended by Francis Pearson Walesby (1798-1858), professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. The work was initially intended as a nine volume series; a supplementary two volumes of Johnson's debates brought the total to... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122841
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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS: SPENSER, Edmund. The Works.Oxford : 1930
Shakespeare Head Edition, number 183 of 375 sets printed on handmade paper and bound thus, with hand-coloured woodcuts by Hilda Quick. The edition, with the text newly prepared, is one of the Press's crowning achievements, this being a particularly appealing unopened copy. A further eleven copies were issued on vellum.
Hilda Quick (1895-1978)... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142984
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : [early 1900s]
A beautifully bound set of the collected works of Dickens, with illustrations throughout.
Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 68471
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Complete Works,Cambridge, Massachusetts : 1883
The Riverside edition, a very handsome set of the complete works of Hawthorne. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 140414
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Complete Psychological Works.London : 1975
A complete set of the Hogarth Press's Standard Edition. This is the most authoritative collection of the psychoanalytical works of Freud, edited by James Strachey, a former student of Freud's and member of the Bloomsbury Group. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 133926
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.New York : 1903
Limited edition, number 15 of 250 sets printed on Enfield paper. This collection demonstrates Thackeray's "skill in speech, his vivid characters... the biting, rollicking satire of the early works" through to the "shrewder, more subtle, and more philosophical" later works (ODNB).
Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 120108
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COLLINS, Wilkie. The Works.New York : [c.1890]
Only collected edition, rare, of the collected works of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), novelist, playwright, friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 99778
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : [c.1890]
A handsomely bound set of the Library Edition of Dickens's collected works. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 107311
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127332
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BURNS, Robert. The Works.Edinburgh : 1877-9
First William Scott Douglas edition, here handsomely bound and abundantly extra-illustrated, described by ODNB as a "splendid, six-volume library edition. The poems in this edition are arranged chronologically, and while it was the most sumptuous yet published it was also the most complete and correct regarding both text and notes".
Douglas... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139102
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139270
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1881-82
Limited "Édition de Luxe", number 614 of 1,000 sets. Out of the many collected works of Dickens which were published in the late 19th century, the present edition has good claim to be the largest, boldest, and most striking. Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 140460
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HUXLEY, Thomas H. The Works.New York : 1894
Author's edition, one of 1,000 numbered sets collecting works by the British biologist and science educationist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). "Huxley published over 400 essays, papers, letters, reviews, and books. Many of his papers on invertebrate anatomy and vertebrate palaeontology were amassed by Foster and Lankester into five volumes as The... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 115182
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145033
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MORRIS, William. The Collected Works.London : 1910
The best collected edition of the works of William Morris, including introductions by the author's daughter, May Morris. One of a limited edition of 1050 numbered sets and very attractively bound. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 68521
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COOPER, James Fenimore. The Complete Works.New York : 1859
An early and very handsomely bound set of the works of James Fenimore Cooper. Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 68667
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. The Complete Works.New York and London : 1904
The Mazarine Edition, number 173 of 750 sets. An attractive collected set of Flaubert's collected works. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145329
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works in Prose and Verse.London : 1919-26
The Wessex Edition, the definitive edition of Hardy's works, and a finely bound set. The set is complete other than for Jude the Obscure and Human Shows. The books are later impressions, with the edition first printed between 1912 and 1926, other than Human Shows which was printed in 1931; this set may have been bound before it was issued. For the Wessex... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132753
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.London : 1924-7
Signed limited "Atlantic" edition, the preferred "London" issue, number 491 of 620 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of vol. I, for sale and distribution in Britain. A further 1,050 sets were produced and signed for the American issue, and are by far the more common of the two issues. The Atlantic edition is the finest collected edition... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 129483
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Edinburgh & London : [c.1880]
The Cabinet edition. This handsome set includes Eliot's seven novels and other literary works including, The Spanish Gypsy and Scenes of Clerical Life. Four volumes, which include the Life of George Eliot, were published later for the Cabinet Edition, but are not present in this set.
Eliot's novels were popular for their political views and... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138206
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works.London : 1884 & 1893
An attractive early set of Tennyson's works in a Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding. Collected editions of Tennyson's works began to appear in 1870; the canonical complete works was published in the 1907 to 1908 Eversley edition, edited by the author's son Hallam. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139099
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IRVING, Washington. The Works.New York : 1891-97
The Knickerbocker Edition of the Irving collected works, attractively bound. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 145030
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1904-28
An attractively bound set of Kipling's works. With three of the volumes containing Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Ditties, The Years Between, Songs from Books, The Seven Seas and The Five Nations published by Methuen. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 145156
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works.New York : 1901
A handsomely bound set of the Thistle Edition, complete as issued, and containing the author's novels, satirical sketches and letters. The present edition was issued in 24 volumes from 1895 to 1899 and comprises 22 volumes of Stevenson's works with 2 volumes of his letters. Three more volumes (Stevenson's biography and more of his letters) were published... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 102346
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TWAIN, Mark. The Works.New York : 1911
The Author's national edition. The complete collected works of Twain very handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco.
Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 111591
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.New York : 1914-26
The Seven Seas Edition, number 435 of 1,050 copies signed by the author on the half-title of vol. I. This was issued by Doubleday as the counterpart to the Bombay Edition, published by Macmillan in London. A particularly attractive set, beautifully bound by the workshop of Henry Stikeman, one of the leading American binders of the period. Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 132739
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RICARDO, David. The Works and Correspondence.Cambridge : 1951-73
First edition, first impressions, of the Royal Economic Society's edition of the collected works of Ricardo. The definitive edition of the economist's works, the collection includes many writings which were previously unpublished. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 126160
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1899
The Gadshill edition, "printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868" and including H. K. Browne and George Cruikshank's beloved illustrations. A handsome set of what is generally considered one of the best editions of the collected works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 141805
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DEFOE, Daniel The Works.New York : 1905
The Hand-Made Edition, number 41 of 150 copies of this deluxe set of Defoe's works, in a beautiful morocco binding.
This set is beautifully bound by the bindery of Whitman Bennett in New York. Bennett (18831968) spent his youth as successful film producer and director for Famous-Lasky and Paramount Studios, working on some of the most... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 144142
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1874-76
An attractively bound complete set of Dickens's works with a commemorative British "Charles Dickens" postage stamp pasted to the front free endpaper of each volume. As part of the Charles Dickens Centenary celebrated in 1912, a London Committee was established to collect funds for the benefit of the author's descendants. The committee, which included... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 138660
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GALSWORTHY, John. The Works.1922-36
The Manaton Edition, the first collected edition of Galsworthy's works. One of a limited edition of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. Very handsomely bound. Learn More£5,950.00Stock Code: 68429
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POPE, Alexander. The Works.London : 1770
A highly attractive set of Alexander Pope's writings. Before his death Pope began the task of bringing together and editing his collected works, with his friend William Warburton finishing the project and seeing it through the press in 1751. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 126010
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. The Works,Edinburgh : 1843
First collected edition of Bentham's works, compiled under the supervision of his disciple and editor, John Bowring, assisted by John Hill Burton, who wrote the lengthy "Introduction to the study of Bentham's works". The collected works were first issued in 22 parts, at 9 shillings each, between the years 1838 and 1843. "The Works are not complete,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126241
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : 1891
An extremely attractive library set of the works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 106052
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FIELDING, Henry. The Works.London : 1882.
A handsomely bound set of the works of Henry Fielding, edited and with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen, the literary critic and father of Virginia Woolf. One of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies for sale in Europe and 250 copies for sale in the US. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 68476
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.London : 1891-3
A beautifully bound set of the second edition of the Cambridge Shakespeare, which was edited by William Aldis Wright and "remains the great monument to his industry and accuracy... It was in his nature to be silent about poetic beauty and dramatic genius; but learning, accuracy, and common sense combined to make him one of Britain's greatest Shakespearian... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139097
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MORRIS, William. The Collected Works.London : 1910
A handsomely bound set of the best collected edition of the works of William Morris, including introductions by the author's daughter, May Morris. One of a limited edition of 1050 numbered sets of which this is number 259. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136121
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HOGARTH, William. The Life and Works.Philadelphia : 1900
The Commemorative edition, number ten of ten copies printed and specially bound by the publishers, this set produced for Alice S. Timayenis with her name printed on the limitation page in each volume and signed by Barrie on a tipped-in leaf at the front of volume I; with the plates in three states, printed on "India paper, Japanese vellum, and papier... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 118680
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition.London : 1973-76
First complete collected edition, number 853 of 1,750 sets. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets were... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137778
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition.London : 1973-6
First complete collected edition, one of 1,750 sets published. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 129564
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KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings.New York : 1938
The Hampstead edition, the best collected edition of Keats's works and a very handsomely bound set. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 68671
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition;London : 1973-6
First complete collected edition, number 139 of 1,750 sets published. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 144299
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere.London : [c.1840]
An attractively bound set of Shakespeare's works. The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791-1873) was already a Shakespeare lover and bibliophile in his teens, when he owned an imperfect First Folio which he made up by printing the missing pages from a facsimile edition. "His first major project as an author took shape in 1837, when he resolved... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 130360
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SMITH, Adam. The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart.London : 1811-12
First edition of the complete collected works of Adam Smith, with a biography of the author by the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 107885
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.London : 1894
Reprint of the Cambridge Shakespeare which was first published in 1863. Editor William George Clark's "principal and most enduring work was the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863-6), mainly planned by him, with a complete collation of all the early editions, and a selection of emendations by later editors. Clark co-operated in the first volume with John Glover,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121876
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RICHARDSON, Samuel. The Works...London : 1811
First collected edition of the author whom Jane Austen "knew... by heart" (ODNB); Anna Laetitia Barbauld called him "the father of the modern novel of the serious or pathetic kind". The editor was Dublin-born Edward Mangin (1772-1852), of Huguenot origins, a contemporary of Southey at Oxford, ordained into the Irish church; he published several volumes... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 26106
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Boston & New York : [c.1890].
A handsomely bound set of Eliot's works. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 114156
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BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works.San Francisco : 1886
First edition, the complete set of what is still considered by historians to be the most important single source of early Western American history. "Colossal co-operative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in this country" (Howes). Although the first title-page is dated 1886, the set was published 1883-90. Vols. 11 and 33 were... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 68597
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Works.London and Boston : 1904-06
The Olympic limited edition, number 6 of 50 sets only. Copy number 1 was presented to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. The effort to purchase and restore the apartment in which Keats spent his final days began in 1903, at the instigation of American poet Robert Underwood Johnson. In April 1909 it was opened under the aegis of the newly formed Keats-Shelley... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 138177
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this set in an attractive binding by the noted Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 105784
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.London : 1875
A handsomely bound set. Dyce was perhaps the leading Shakespeare scholar of the 19th-century. This collection was first published in 1857, with a second edition published in 1866. The present third edition was published six years after his death. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122487
