The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare 

• 1842 
• Shakespeare, William 

  + 1

  Symmons, Charles
• Miscellaneous 
• William Andrus 

3887813

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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William, Symmons, Charles

1842

Biography, Cultural heritage, History, Literature, Poetry

844

 x  cm

The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare; from the text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone Hartford: William Andrus 1842. One volume edition. 12mo. xx, 844pp., [1] engraved frontispiece plate. With "A Life of the Poet," by Charles Symmons, and "The Seven Ages of Man," (illustrated with wood-engravings) at the front, and a glossary at the rear. Contemporary dark red full crushed morocco with two gilt centerpieces, and decorative borders stamped in blind. Three small early owner's signatures and manuscript annotations to the front fly leaves and the blank recto of the frontispiece. Lacks one leaf (pages 59/60 from "Twelfth Night"), binding neatly detached at the front hinge, else good. A scarce American imprint, presumably the first collected edition "Complete In One Volume." No copies of the 1842 imprint in OCLC. Although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.