Twelfth-Night or What You Will, The Winter’s Tale, The Life and Death of King John A Tragedy, The Life and Death of Richard The Second, The First Part of Henry IV with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-Spur – 5 Shakespeare Plays 1734
Shakespeare, William
$250.00
Place Published: London
Date Published: 1734
Illustrator: frontispiece engravings
Size: 12mo
Omnibus of 5 Shakespeare plays, all (printed for) Tonson London and dated 1734; here in new full calf with blind-stamped borders and floral ornaments to front and rear, 6 compartments to spine, with gilt titling and blind-stamped devices; the plays are: Twelfth-Night or What You Will, The Winter’s Tale, The Life and Death of King John A Tragedy, The Life and Death of Richard The Second, The First Part of Henry IV with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-Spur; title pages stating ‘Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the Proprietors and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster MDCCXXXIV’; all plays with title pages, list of characters, and some with frontispiece engravings; acquired by this bookseller in a single-volume, with weary boards, and handed on to our bookbinder; general foxing/tanning to pages throughout, edges of pages with occasional wear and closed tears (some edges with acid-free restoration), occasional stains, overall a little tired but surviving.