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Lot 219 - “The Rossetti Shakespeare: The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare,” Antique Illustrated Collected Works With Criticism, Edited By William Michael Rossetti, D. Lothrop And Company, Boston, 1882
Lot 219 - “The Rossetti Shakespeare: The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare,” Antique Illustrated Collected Works With Criticism, Edited By William Michael Rossetti, D. Lothrop And Company, Boston, 1882
Antique edition of “The Rossetti Shakespeare: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” edited by William Michael Rossetti and published by D. Lothrop and Company, Boston, 1882. Includes essays, a critical biography, a history of drama in England during Shakespeare’s time, and critical introductions to each play, with illustrations throughout. Front cover completely detached from the binding and split along the endpapers; spine covering detached from text block; back cover attached but separated along inner hinge, with several pages at rear beginning to come loose. Ownership label inside front cover reads “Presented to Theodore Gissell by the Sunday School of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, New York, Christmas 1886.” Significant wear and tear to edges and corners of covers and spine.