The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1st Edition Heinemann 1910

Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, with illustrations by Hugh Thomson – being 40 hand-tipped colour plates with printed tissue-guards, b&w text illustrations; a volume in a series of similarly illustrated classics by Heinemann; blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, gilt titling and illustration to front board; small bookshop label, former owner’s inscription to front endpaper, medium-heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims, text block, scattered foxing throughout, some tanning to pages, and with offset from plates to facing pages (all plates present and accounted for, with tissue-guards intact); boards rubbed, and with one or two small worn spots, shelfwear to edges, wear to head of spine.