Complete Plays by William Shakespeare, The (6v.) Edited and introduced by Stanley Wells. Wood-engraved frontispiece for each play by different artists. Vol.1 585pp., pink paper covers, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry VI parts 1,2 and 3, Titus Andronicus. Vol.2 657pp., blue paper covers, King Richard III, Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Loves Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, King Richard II, King John. Vol.3 640pp., green paper covers, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Julius Caesar. Vol.4 607pp., pink paper covers, As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Othello. Vol.5 670pp., blue paper covers, All's Well That Ends Well, Timon of Athens, King Lear (two versions), Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles. Vol.6 653pp., green paper covers, Corialanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII (All is True), Two Noble Kinsmen, Glossary. All quarter-bound in dark red buckram with paper covers printed with a gold pattern. Dark blue 6 volume slipcase with gilt signature. Each 25x16cm.
The superb Jubilee Set, complete 8 volume set in two slip cases – set in Baskerville by Oxford University Press – printed at the Bath press on Caxton wove paper and bound by them in Oxford Library Buckram.A revised edition of the 1988 issue with corrections. Some of the frontispiece engravings have been reprinted, while others have been redesigned. Issued in two
four-volume green titled slip-cases. The paper sides are illustrated with designs by Richard Shirley Smith.
- Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.
- Tragicomedies: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Two Noble Kinsmen.
- Comedies: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All s Well That Ends Well.
- Early Comedies: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love s Labour s Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Classical Plays: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus.
- Histories I: King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Henry V.
- Histories II: Henry VI, Part One, Henry VI Part Two, Henry VI Part Three, Richard III.
- Romances: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII.
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