1901 - The Works of William Shakespeare

Published 1901
John D. Morris and Company, Publishers/ Philadelphia

Windsor Edition De Luxe

“This edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare printed for subscribers only, is limited to One Thousand Numbered Sets of which this is 575.”

Fifteen volumes out of Twenty Volumes.

Included: 

Vol II: Poems and Sonnets/ Two Gentlemen of Verona
Vol IV: Henry VI, Part 1/ Henry VI/ Part 2
Vol V: Henry VI Part 3/ Troilus and Cressida
Vol VII: Measure For Measure/ Antony and Cleopatra
Vol VIII: Merchant of Venice/ Romeo and Juliet
Vol IX: All’s Well That Ends Well/ Henry VIII
Vol X: Taming of the Shrew/ Coriolanus
Vol XII: The Winter’s Tale/ King John
Vol XIV: King Lear/ The Tempest
Vol XV: Merry Wives of Windsor/ Henry V
Vol XVI: Twelfth Night/ Othello
Vol XVII: Richard III/ Love’s Labour’s Lost
Vol XVIII: Cymbeline/ Timon of Athens
Vol XIX: Hamlet/ Comedy of Errors
Vol XX: Index

Three quarter blue leather with marbled boards, gilt detail/lettering to spines, decorative endpapers, engravings/ frontispiece with tissue guards, decorative title pages with gilt detail, gilt top edges, rough cut side/ bottom edges, engravings with tissue guards within along with black and white drawings, bindings tight. Light to moderate wear to spine edges with some light wear to board edges/corners. 

Size of Each Volume: 5 1/2” x 7 3/4”

A beautiful elegant set.