Works

1937. SHAKESPEARE. Works. London: Robt. Rivière & Son, 1937. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, navy and brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $6500.Later edition of the Bard’s histories, comedies, tragedies and poems, limited to 100 sets for distribution in fine bindings by Rivière & Son.""Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature"" (Harold Bloom). Each volume illustrated with frontispiece portrait. With commentaries, glossaries and study questions. Interior fine, very minor wear to binding. A beautiful set.