Shakespeare´s Plays with illustrations
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3 000 SEK
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Beskrivning
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. (10). The Plays... Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Stevens... With a Series of Engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli,... and a selection of explanatory and historical Notes... I-X. London (printed for F. C. and J. Rivington and others) 1805.
Large 8:o. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 37 engraved plates after H. Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dudley, and William Blake (all, text with offsetting from the plates).
Contemporary brown mottled full calf, partly worn, gilt borders, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, gilt partly spotted spines, 6 spines with small damages at head, speckled edges. 10 volumes.
The 2 plates engraved by William Blake are his only illustrations to Shakespeare.
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Auktionsnummer:
177904
Datum:
2013-04-22