Hardcover
1810 · Philadelphia
by SHAKESPEARE, William (Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis and Love Maria Whitcomb)
Philadelphia: C. and A. Conrad & Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas, & Co. Baltimore; Somervell and Conrad, Petersburg; and Bonsal, Conrad, & Co. Norfolk, 1810. Hardcover. Very Good. Eight volume set (complete). Octavos. Bound in contemporary American mottled calf, with dark red and black leather spine labels lettered in gold, edges speckled blue. Ink ownership signature of Love Maria Whitcomb and small and attractively printed bookplate of her husband "Dr. F. L. H. Willis" on the front free endpaper or flyleaf of each volume. Modest wear to the edges and joints at the spine ends, overall scattered foxing and some staining, one volume (VI) lacks (truncated)