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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. [Works]. The New Century Shakespeare. The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright...Introductions, Notes and Glossaries...by Israel Gollancz. New York: J.F. Taylor 1902. 24 vols., 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt fillet frame borders enclosing compartmented inner borders of quadruple gilt fillet, green onlaid morocco centerpiece medallions showing theatrical masques, green onlaid morocco flower corner ornaments; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt and gilt-lettered; UPPER DOUBLURES OF CALF EACH ILLUSTRATED WITH A DIFFERENT MONOCHROME BRUSHWORK DRAWING SIGNED BY PAUL C. WINTERNITZ; lower doublures of green morocco with gilt foliate borders and colored morocco onlays; green satin endpages, t.e.g., others uncut, a few volumes with some slight wear, front inner hinge of vol. 1 beginning to crack. "IRVING EDITION," limited to 21 copies, signed and dated ("1902") by the actor-manager Henry Irving on the dedication page of vol. 1, with an ALS of Irving, 2 pp., 8vo, declining a theatrical project (dated 1898) tipped in at front of vol. 1, illustrated, EACH VOLUME WITH A WATERCOLOR DRAWING BY M. MELVIN of a Shakespeare-related English scene at front. (24)

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. [Works]. The New Century Shakespeare. The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright...Introductions, Notes and Glossaries...by Israel Gollancz. New York: J.F. Taylor 1902. 24 vols., 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt fillet frame borders enclosing compartmented inner borders of quadruple gilt fillet, green onlaid morocco centerpiece medallions showing theatrical masques, green onlaid morocco flower corner ornaments; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt and gilt-lettered; UPPER DOUBLURES OF CALF EACH ILLUSTRATED WITH A DIFFERENT MONOCHROME BRUSHWORK DRAWING SIGNED BY PAUL C. WINTERNITZ; lower doublures of green morocco with gilt foliate borders and colored morocco onlays; green satin endpages, t.e.g., others uncut, a few volumes with some slight wear, front inner hinge of vol. 1 beginning to crack. "IRVING EDITION," limited to 21 copies, signed and dated ("1902") by the actor-manager Henry Irving on the dedication page of vol. 1, with an ALS of Irving, 2 pp., 8vo, declining a theatrical project (dated 1898) tipped in at front of vol. 1, illustrated, EACH VOLUME WITH A WATERCOLOR DRAWING BY M. MELVIN of a Shakespeare-related English scene at front. (24)