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University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.25 x 6.25. 1589 pp (including index). Fine / Fine. Complete four-volume set. Teal cloth over boards. Gilt stamping to spines. Text blocks tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jackets show very light rubbing toward heads of spines, else Fine. Dust jackets now in archival protective covers. Additional shipping charges will apply.

New York: Martin, Johnson and Company Steel. Edition not stated, assumed late 1800s. Hardcover. Quarto. 11 x 8.75 inches. Complete three-volume set. Good. Blind embossed dark brown full leather on thick beveled boards, gilt double-ruled edges, blind inside dentelles, five raised fillet bands with gilt-stamped lettering in two chambers. Original owner's name (O. B. Sappington) gilt stamped at foot of spine. All edges gilt. Comedies volume, pages [liv] 1-621; Historical Plays volume, pages 623-1097; Tragedies volume, pages 1099-1725. "Carefully Collated and Compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; and A Life of the Great Dramatist, by Charles Knight. Illustrated with New and Finely Executed Steel Engravings, Chiefly Portraits in Character of Celebrated American Actors, Drawn from Life, Expressly for This Edition." Pages age toned and foxed. Cases edgeworn and quite rubbed. Front hinge and bands of Tragedies volume… Read More