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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Plays ... to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. London: for C. Bathurst, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Son, L. Davis, W. Owen [and 25 others], 1785. 10 volumes, 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I, 4 plates, one folding (occasional spotting or light waterstaining). Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments (some covers almost detached, some labes chipped or missing). Provenance: A. Caldecott (signature on each title); Repton School Library (bookplate). Third edition. Lowndes VI, 2270.
With Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the most eminent English Poets (London, 1794, 4 vols., new edition), Sir John Wilson's The Royal Philatelic Collection (London, 1952), a nine-volume set of Gibbon and three odd volumes, all with the bookplate or library stamp of Repton School. (27)
With Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the most eminent English Poets (London, 1794, 4 vols., new edition), Sir John Wilson's The Royal Philatelic Collection (London, 1952), a nine-volume set of Gibbon and three odd volumes, all with the bookplate or library stamp of Repton School. (27)
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