The Works of William Shakespeare (40-volume Miniature Edition with Bookcase)

Description:

Charming miniature set of Shakespeare's works. Easily readable in 6-point typeface. Printed in Scotland by Andersons Edinburgh Ltd. For Allied Newspapers Ltd., the complete set was made available to newspaper subscribers. Although the set is undated, the verso of the title page of As You Like It states that the volume was “One of the plays chosen for presentation for the inauguration of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, April 1932″.

Complete set of 40 volumes includes 38 plays each in its own volume: All's well that ends well; Antony and Cleopatra; As you like it; Biography and glossary; Comedy of errors; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Julius Caesar; King Henry VI. First part; King Henry IV. Second part; King Henry V; King Henry VI. First part; King Henry VI. Second part; King Henry VI. Third part; King Henry VIII; King John; King Lear; King Richard II; King Richard III; Love's labour's lost; Macbeth; Measure for measure; Merry wives of Windsor; Midsummer night's dream; Much ado about nothing; Othello, the Moor of Venice; Pericles Prince of Tyre; Romeo and Juliet; Sonnets : Lover's complaint; Passionate pilgrim; Phoenix and Turtle; Taming of the shrew; The Merchant of Venice; The Tempest; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; Troilus and Cressida; Twelfth night, or, What you will; Two gentlemen of Verona; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; Winter's tale. Each volume contains a summary of the play, a list of characters, and date of the play was written. In addition, there is a single volume of sonnets and poems, and a volume which contains a glossary, and a biography.

Condition

40 vols, miniature (52x35mm), orig. faux-leather, marbled endpapers, displayed in the original custom-made three tier plywood bookcase (225x198mm). Very good set with clear titles to spines (which are often indistinct).