As you like it -- Antony and Cleopatra -- The Comedy of errors -- Venus and Adonis -- Hamlet -- Julius Caesar -- King Henry IV, parts I and II -- King Henry V -- King Henry VI, parts I, II and III -- King Henry VIII -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Measure for measure -- Merchant of Venice -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Midsummer-night's dream -- Much ado about nothing -- Othello -- Romeo and Juliet -- Taming of the shrew -- The tempest -- Twelfth night., Comedy of errors and Venus and Adonis are bound in one volume (p. 1-147 and [149]-252, respectively), each with a separate title page., Issued in black leather box. Individual volumes are bound in different colored leather. Each volume includes a portrait of Shakespeare., Published ca. 1895. Cf. Studies in bibliography, v. 58, p. 220., and Title from box; 24 v. in leather box, as originally issued. From the Geraldine Page papers.
Engraved, with the exception of 8 p. following general title page, and part [4], p. 1-16. and Parts [2]-[4] have special title page; part [2]: Directions for writing shorthand ... part [3]: A dictionary, or An alphabetical table, containing almost all the words in the English tongue, with the short-hand over-against each word ... part [4]: Observations, and explications ...
Added title page, engraved, signed: Tho. Cecill sculp., After the Table of the experiments (signatures [A4-a3]) a list of "Books printed for William Lee" [and others] 4 columns on 1 leaf (signature [a4])., and Appended: (1) His Lops vsuall receipt for the gout, to which the sixtieth experiment hath reference. 1 leaf (verso blank) (2) New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished. [n.p., n.d.] (3) History naturall and experimentall, of life and death. 1650.
Bound with A. Jones' The black book of conscience. London, 1660., Imperfect: a few head-lines bled., and Signatures: A8 (incl. front.) B4 (B4 [blank?] wanting).
Advertising matter dated September 1846: [20] p. at end not included in pagination. and Bookseller's label: Simms & Dinham, booksellers & stationers, Exchange Strt., Manchester. Inscribed: B. Lowther, 1847.