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New York: The Shakespeare Society of New York, 1888-1891. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. An attractive fifteen volumes of the limited edition Bankside Shakespeare, edited by Appleton Morgan, and uniformly bound in half calf. One of 500 limited edition copies of the Bankside Shakespeare. Fifteen volumes of the twenty-two volume set, uniformly bound in half calf bindings with a ribbon marker. Top edge gilt. The first fifteen volumes of plays from the Bankside Shakespeare, compiled and edited by the American scholar James Appleton Morgan, best known as Appleton Morgan (1845-1928), between 1888 and 1906. Morgan uses the texts which were given to the players, printed in parallel with the first revised folio text, the Heminges and Condell Text of 1623. Each volume includes enlightening critical introductions by various authors, who analyse the text and provide historical context for the development of each play. Volume XV is illustrated with a frontispiece.This set…

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.