Books

Oxford edition, later printings. 8vo. Three volumes. Printed on india paper. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in full red polished calf, double gilt rules to covers, gilt lettering and decoration to spines. Marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A near fine set, slightly faded to spines. Frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare to each volume.

Comedies, Histories & Tragedies is a collection of William Shakespeare's plays, published in the First Folio in 1623, seven years after his death. Compiled by his colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell, it is considered one of the most influential books ever published in the English language.