The Works of Shakespeare With Notes by Charles Knight: Imperial Edition [4 Volumes]

Charles Knight [ed.] and William Shakespeare, The Works of Shakespeare with notes by Charles Knight, Imperial Edition, London: Virtue & Co Limited, n.d. [1873-76], 4 Volumes

Volume I: With a notice of the original editions of the plays - Comedies - Histories - 444 pages including Portrait of Shakespeare frontispiece, vignette title of The Birthplace of Shakespeare (with Garrick's Jubilee Procession) and 24 steel engravings
Volume II: 445 - 810 pages + 78 pages including 1 engraved title page and 17 steel engravings
Volume III: Histories - Tragedies - Poems - Plays ascribed to Shakespeare - A brief notice of opinion on the writing of Shakespeare - Indexes, 79 - 406 pages including frontispiece of Wolsey at Leicester Abbey (King Henry VIII) , Vignette title of The Globe Theatre, Bankside and 13 steel engravings
Volume IV: 407-778 pages including title page of The Death of Caesar and 2 steel engravings

Contemporary half blue leather with blue cloth boards; five raised bands and title in gilt to spines. All edges gilt (each)
15 x 11.5 in (38 x 29.2 cm) (each)

A lovely four volume set of Charles Knight's Imperial Edition of 'The Works of Shakespeare' including numerous steel engraving plates throughout from the Pictures by C W Cope, R.A; W P Frith, R.A; C R Leslie A.R.A; D Maclise, R.A.; E M Ward, R.A.; C Clint, A.R.A.; W Q Orchardson, A.R.A. and Others

Charles Knight was an English publisher, editor, and author. Born in 1791, Knight was the son of a bookseller and printer who entered him into the world of publishing from an early age. After a time as a journalist, and after publishing several of his own works, he became the editor of 'The English Cyclopedia' in 1853.

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