THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CONTAINING THE SONNETS, PASSIONATE PILGRIM, A LOVER’S COMPLAINT, TITUS ANDRONICUS AND ROMEUS AND JULIET - Vol XVI

The last and in some ways most desirable volume of this edition by Edmond Malone and others containing Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Printed by John Exshaw, Grafton St Dublin with Irish provenance. Bound in contemporaneous full calf with gilt tooling and calf labels to spine over red and dark brown. Corners a little bumped, chip to spine bottom, age worn. Bindings are all very solid and well preserved throughout. Endpapers clean, scattered light foxing and toned to edges. An early ownership label to front pastedown reads ‘Stephen Gordon Esq’. Text block clean and unmarked throughout. 389 pp. plus glossarial index.