The Arden Shakespeare, First Series - Shakespeare (William),...

Hammer

£20

The Arden Shakespeare, First Series - Shakespeare (William), The Works [...], various editors, twenty volumes of plays, comprising The Merry Wives of Windsor, first edition thus, 1904; Henry V, second edition thus, 1917; As You Like It, second edition thus, 1920; The Winter's Tale, second edition thus, May 1922; Much Ado About Nothing, first edition thus, 1924; Richard II, revised second edition thus, 1925; Measure For Measure, revised second edition thus, 1925; The Tempest, revised third edition thus, 1926; Rome and Juliet, third edition, 1927; All's Well That Ends Well, revised second edition thus, 1927; King Lear, revised fourth edition thus, 1927; The Merchant of Venice, revised fifth edition thus, 1927; Hamlet, revised sixth edition thus, 1928; Macbeth, revised fourth edition thus, 1928; Othello, revised fourth edition thus, 1928; Twelfth Night, revised fourth edition thus, 1929; The Taming of the Shrew, revised second edition thus, 1929; Antony and Cleopatra, revised sixth edition thus, 1930; A Midsummer-Night's Dream, revised third edition thus, 1930; Cymbeline, revised fourth edition thus, 1930; London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., titles printed in red and black, contemporary red cloth, each upper-cover with the Shakespeare coat of arms blocked in blind, gilt-lettered spines, sold by William Bruce, Bookseller, Edinburgh, his ticket, 8vo, [20]

Provenance: Ex Libris Charles T. Nightingale, his pictorial lithographed and etched bookplate by John R. Sutherland (Scottish, fl. 1920s) to the pastedown of each volume.