ANTIQUARIAN SHAKESPEARE 14-VOLUME SET
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Description
ANTIQUARIAN SHAKESPEARE 14-VOLUME SET, Manley Wood, editor, The Plays of William Shakespeare with Notes of Various Commentators, In Fourteen Volumes, London: printed for George Kearsley, 1806. Mottled calf binding with gilt-embossed border on cover, gilt-embossed titles and volume numbers on spines, marbled endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare, and numerous plates.
Provenance:
From the Curtis Webster Collection, Princeton, NJ, descended in the McGraw-Hill Family.
Condition
Overall good to very good condition, most volumes with extensive wear and cracking to spine, five with number missing from spine. Interior text with some toning, primarily to plates and endpapers, but generally bright interior pages. First volume has bookseller's notes written in pencil on back of endpaper.
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