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The Complete Plays William Shakespeare 8 volumes

The superb Jubilee Set, complete 8 volume set in two slip cases – set in Baskerville by Oxford University Press – printed at the Bath press on Caxton wove paper and bound by them in Oxford Library Buckram. A revised edition of the 1988 issue with corrections. Some of the frontispiece engravings have been reprinted, while others have been redesigned. Issued in two
four-volume green titled slip-cases. The paper sides are illustrated with designs by Richard Shirley Smith.

The text is  that of The Oxford Shakespeare 1986 edition

BONUS ITEM: Shakespeare’s Life and World – biography of the life and times of Shakespeare, a wonderful evocation of the Elizabethan period. 1st Folio Society edition 2004

• Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.
• Tragicomedies: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Two Noble Kinsmen.
• Comedies: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All s Well That Ends Well.
• Early Comedies: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love s Labour s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream.
• Classical Plays: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus.
• Histories I: King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Henry V.
• Histories II: Henry VI, Part One, Henry VI Part Two, Henry VI Part Three, Richard III.
• Romances: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII.

Features;

• Folio Society Fourth Printings No. 891
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2000
• Quarter Green Cloth Hardback
• Superbly Illustrated throughout
• Size 240 x 150mm, 12kg

Condition: Good – Bump to Both Slipcase, Light Damage to the Corner of Two Vol, Overall Good Copy

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