DECORATIVE BINDINGS: SHAKESPEARE (W), THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEA...

Hammer

£260

DECORATIVE BINDINGS: SHAKESPEARE (W), THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE, edited by Howard Staunton, 3 vols, 3/4 tan leather, marbled boards, end papers and blocks, gilt titles and decoration to spines, engraved illustrations by John Gilbert throughout, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, London 1860, with GREEN (J.R.), A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, 4 vols, 3/4 green leather, green boards, marbled end papers and blocks, gilt bishop's mitre over heraldic shield to front covers, gilt titles and decoration to spines, Manchester Grammar School book plate to front end paper, some colour plates, black and white engraved illustrations throughout, including some foldout illustrations, Macmillan And Co Limited, London 1902 (7)

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very minor fading to spines, some staining to outer boards with very little staining/foxing to pages