17th Century 13 Shakespeare Books Collection - The Yale Shakespeare

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Book covers are faded. All bindings are in very good condition.
Approximate dimensions: 6.75 inches X 4.5 inches

List of … Read more Book covers are faded. All bindings are in very good condition.
Approximate dimensions: 6.75 inches X 4.5 inches

List of collection:

Antony and Cleopatra

A Midsummer Night's Dream (inside cover 1961 hand written gift inscription) Includes the facsimile of the unusually handsome title page of the genuine edition of 1600...

The Merchant of Venice (fold in the binding fabric) Includes the facsimile of the title page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the genuine1600 Quarto of 'The Merchant of Venice'

The Taming of the Shrew

King Lear: Includes the facsimile of the title page of the Harvard copy of the First Quarto of 'King Lear'....

The Comedy of Errors: Includes the facsimile from a copy in the Library of Yale University....the scene depicted is Adriana's appeal to the Duke...

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Includes the facsimile of the title page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the first quarto (1609).

Shakespeare's Poems: Includes the facsimile from a copy in the Yale Elizabethan Club the title-page of the rare second edition of 'Venis and Adonis." Four copies of this edition are known to survive.

Hamlet: Includes the facsimile of the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the Second Quarto (1604), the best text of the play. Three copies bearing this date and three others bearing the date 1605 are known to survive.

Macbeth (watermark on cover)

Love's Labour's Lost: Includes the facsimile of the frontispiece to "Love's Labour's Lost" in Rowe's edition of Shakespeare (1700). The scene depicted is the visit of the pretended Muscovites near the opening of V. ii.

Romeo and Juliet

Julius Caesar: Includes the facsimile of page two in William A. White's copy of the fifth quarto edition. Three copies of this edition are known to survive. See less