Lot 83
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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Works, edited by W.E. Henley. Edinburgh: R.G. Newbegin, New York, by T.A. Constable, 1903. 20 volumes, 2° (321 x 201mm). Titles in red and black with woodcut device, 115 plates, mostly engraved, all but 10 hand-coloured or coloured, including 21 hand-coloured and signed plates by H.C. Green. (A few plate margins lightly spotted). Contemporary half morocco gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt (spines a tiny bit faded, a few small scuff marks).
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Works, edited by W.E. Henley. Edinburgh: R.G. Newbegin, New York, by T.A. Constable, 1903. 20 volumes, 2° (321 x 201mm). Titles in red and black with woodcut device, 115 plates, mostly engraved, all but 10 hand-coloured or coloured, including 21 hand-coloured and signed plates by H.C. Green. (A few plate margins lightly spotted). Contemporary half morocco gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt (spines a tiny bit faded, a few small scuff marks).

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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Works, edited by W.E. Henley. Edinburgh: R.G. Newbegin, New York, by T.A. Constable, 1903. 20 volumes, 2° (321 x 201mm). Titles in red and black with woodcut device, 115 plates, mostly engraved, all but 10 hand-coloured or coloured, including 21 hand-coloured and signed plates by H.C. Green. (A few plate margins lightly spotted). Contemporary half morocco gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt (spines a tiny bit faded, a few small scuff marks).

NUMBER 5 OF 150 COPIES in the Edinburgh edition of the Henley Shakespeare, inscribed and specially bound for Florence Piper Way. AN ATTRACTIVE SET. (20)

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