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Sale 437: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books (#437) 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #70 The Works of William Shakespeare

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$750

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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(Fine Bindings)

Title:

The Works of William Shakespeare

Author:

Shakespeare, William

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Edwin C. Hill

Date Published:

1906

Description:

21 volumes. Introduction by George Brandes. Gravure frontispiece in each volume (most with double-frontispieces). 21.4x14 cm. (8½x5½"), half brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-stamped flower vignette on each spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Hathaway Edition.

No. 4 of 1500 copies of the Hathaway Edition. Many volumes with the armorial bookplate of Constance and Henry Bowles. Volume XI is titled, "The Life and Work of William Shakespeare," by George Brandes.

Condition:

Sunning, light soiling and rubbing at spines; very good.

Item#:

215812

Headline:

Works of William Shakespeare 21 vols, 1/1500
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