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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works...1743-44. FIRST EDITION of Hanmer's illustrated set.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works...1743-44. FIRST EDITION of Hanmer's illustrated set.
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works... carefully revised and corrected. Thomas Hanmer, editor. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1743-44.

6 volumes, 4to (305 x 229 mm). 39 copper-engravings including portraits by Gravelot and Hayman, decorative engraved tail-pieces throughout. Contemporary mottled calf, edges stained red (re-backed preserving original spine, lettering-pieces, and endpapers).

FIRST EDITION of Hanmer's famous illustrated set of Shakespeare's Plays which was the first of the Plays to appear "in any splendid typographical form...[it] was a popular book and was proudly displayed in the libraries of the great and fashionable" (Dibdin). Alston, III:75; Grolier, Shakespeare's Plays 11.
Property from the Collection of Dr. K. William Harter, Alexandria, Virginia
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