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London: Charles Knight, 1851. Octavo. 8 volumes in 7. This set collates the same as those at Princeton and the New York Public Library. However, in this set, each volume has an additional photograph mounted to front free endpaper from Shakespeare's life taken or chosen by William Charles Urquhart and initialed by him. He is also well known for his publication: The Life and Genius of Shakespeare; a lecture in two parts (Portsmouth, 1880) a copy of that work is in the University of Michigan Shakepeare Collection. The seven photographs found in each of the bound volumes and identified as such: Volume I, Stratford on Avon, the Memorial from the River by Bedford and it is initialed by William Charles Urquhart, Volume II (Comedies) Anne Hathaway's Cottage taken in 1899; Room in Which Shakespeare was Born; Volume I (Histories) Shakespeare's House From the West by Bedford in 1892; Volume II (Histories) Stratford on Avon the Memorial Statue, August, 1892); initialed by WCU; Volume I…

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.