Published by The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited.
[Fine Binding] 3 volumes. Tall quartos, 28 x 19 cm. Bound in 3/4 morocco over textured brown boards with Shakespeare's portrait and facsimile signature in gilt on front covers. All edges gilt. Text printed in two columns. Bubble to cloth on rear cover of v. 3. Contents: v. 1. Comedies -- v. 2. Tragedies -- v. 3. Historical plays ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; Poems and sonnets. Frontispiecie portraits of Shakespeare engraved by G. Greatbach from works by T.D. Scott. Portrait of Edwin Forrest in v.1 engraved by D. Pound from a Daguerreotype by Root of New York. Frontispiece portrait in v.2 lettered: R. Hind; C.H. Jeens. Circa 1875? This is an oversized or heavy book