May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -

Sale 2706 - Lot 289

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SHAKESPEARE.) John Boydell; and Shearjashub Spooner. [The American Edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare]. Without title, royal portraits, or preliminaries; including 96 numbered mid-nineteenth-century impressions taken from the re-worked original copper plates (3-51, 54-100). Elephant folio, 30½x25 inches, loose in modern cloth and buckram portfolio with gilt-titled spine and silk ties, moderate wear; various foxing and tears; several plates in duplicate. New York, 1852