Description
NO. 271 OF 350 COPIES, 2 vols. bound as 8, large 8vo, pp. [viii], xxxvi, 310, [2]; [iv], 313-658; [iv], 665-1022; [iv], 1033-1357, [3]; xxxi, [i], 320; [iv], 321-685, [1]; [iv], 689-1019, [1]; [iv], 1025-1486, [2]+ 2 double-sided maps hand-coloured in outline. Numerous hand-coloured coats-of-arms to titles and in margins. Partially-unopened in original blue boards backed in ecru cloth, printed paper labels. Boards just a touch marked, spines a little discoloured, some labels nicked to edges. Armorial bookplates of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence to pastedown, various related ephemera loosely inserted: single-page publication announcement and double-page prospectus and two single-sheet advertisement leaves from The Shakespeare Head Press, a folded typed letter from Maggs Bros advising of the set’s availability new and one from the Times Book Club explaining that no cardboard slipcase for the final volume was available.
