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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Three Odd Volumes of Works.
London: Printed for J. Tonson and the Rest of the Proprietors, 1734-1735.
12mo, first volume without general title, including the following plays: The Tempest;The Two Gentlemen of Verona, with frontispiece; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure, with frontispiece, incomplete, lacking two leaves: A4 (page 7/8) and A9 (17/18); The Comedy of Errors, with frontispiece; Much Ado about Nothing, lacking last leaf, pages 71/72; bound in quarter leather, marbled paper boards, trimmed very close with loss of text in some margins, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.;
[Together with] Volume the Third, containing: Twelfth-Night, with frontispiece; The Winter's Tale, with frontispiece; The Life and Death of King John, with frontispiece; The Life and Death of Richard the Second, with frontispiece; The First Part of Henry IV, with frontispiece; bound in full contemporary mottled calf, with spine label, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.;
[And] Volume the Eighth, including: Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The London Prodigal, with frontispiece; The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, with two frontispieces; The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham, with frontispiece; The Puritan or the Widow of Watling-Street; A Yorkshire Tragedy, with frontispiece; The Comedy of Errors, lacking the first twelve leaves, including title and frontispiece, everything before page 25; The Tragedy of Locrine, with frontispiece; bound in later half leather and marbled paper boards, trimmed very closely, cropping head, foot, and fore-edge text in places, some worming, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (3)
