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1878 EXQUISITE William Shakespeare Illustrated Charles Knight Romeo Juliet 2vA beautiful 19th-century edition of the works of William Shakespeare!
In the mid-19th-century, Charles Knight published an illustrated edition of the works of Shakespeare, a set that proved to be very popular throughout the English-speaking world, into the late 1800s. It included all of the famous works one would expect to be in a collection of Shakespeare, but unlike other editions of the same era, this particular example features the impressive full-page engravings of character portraits.
This 1878 American edition was published in Philadelphia by Amies. An impressive example of Shakespeare.
Item number: #24847
Price: $599
SHAKESPEARE, William
The complete works of William Shakespeare : carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier and others: with a comprehensive life of the great dramatist
Philadelphia : Wm. T. Amies, 1878.
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· Collation: Complete with all… Read More