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London: Day & Son, Limited, 1866. Hardcover. Folio, [xix], 399 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's original full brown cloth sympathetically rebacked with spine preserved. Spine paneled with gilt lettering. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Some uneven fading to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Light toning to text block edges. With additional letterpress red and black title page. SC Consignment. Shelved above Case 4. 1371680. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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.