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Shakespeare's works.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR2759 .K5 1895 v.1-24
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English
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Genre:
  • Specimens.
  • Miniature books (Printing) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1895.
Penn Provenance:
  • Traister, Daniel (donor) (RBC copy)
Physical Description:
24 volumes : portraits ; each 80 mm, in box 14 x 19 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co., [approximately 1895]
Contents:
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • As you like it
  • The Comedy of errors ; Venus and Adonis
  • Hamlet
  • Julius Caesar
  • King Henry IV, parts I
  • King Henry IV, part II
  • King Henry V
  • King Henry VI, part I
  • King Henry VI, part II
  • King Henry VI, part III
  • King Henry VIII
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Measure for measure
  • Merchant of Venice
  • Merry wives of Windsor
  • Midsummer-night's dream
  • Much ado about nothing
  • Othello
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Taming of the shrew
  • The tempest
  • Twelfth night.
Notes:
  • Title from box.
  • Issued in leather box. Individual volumes are each bound in different colored leather. Each volume includes a portrait of Shakespeare.
  • Comedy of errors and Venus and Adonis are bound in one volume (p. 1-147 and [149]-252, respectively), each with a separate title page.
  • Published ca. 1895. Cf. Studies in bibliography, v. 58, p. 220.
Local Notes:
RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Daniel Traister.
OCLC:
775806424

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