William Shakespeare - 22 Volumes of The New Shakespeare Works - 1921-1955

William Shakespeare

The lot contains 22 (of 39) volumes of ‘The Works of Shakespeare’, a series that appeared from 1921 until 1966 as The New Shakespeare, published by the Cambridge University Press ‘For the Syndics of the University Press’ and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson:

1 The Two Gentlemen of Verona – 1921 – xix+110 pp.
2 The Comedy of Errors – 1922 – xxiii+127 pp.
3 Measure for Measure – 1922 – xliii+176 pp.
4 Love’s Labour’s Lost – 1923 - xxxix-212 pp.
5 A Midsummer-Night’s Dream – 1949 (1924; reprint) – xxi+176 pp.
6 Much Ado About Nothing – 1953 (1924; reprint) – xxviii+174 pp.
7 The Merchant of Venice -1953 (1926; reprint) – xxxii+193 pp.
8 All’s Well That Ends Well – 1955 (1929; reprint) – xxxv+202 pp.
9 The Winter’s Tale – 1950 (1931; reprint) – xxvi+206 pp.
10 Hamlet – 1948 (1934; reprint) – xcvii+310 pp.
11 King Richard II – 1951 (1939; reprint) – xcii+250 pp.
12 The First Part of the History of Henry IV – 1949 (1946; reprint) – xlvii+210 pp.
13 The Second Part of the History of Henry IV – 1946 – 231 pp.
14 King Henry V – 1947 – lvii+201 pp.
15 Titus Andronicus – 1948 – lxxii+173 pp.
16 Julius Caesar – 1949 – xlvii+219 pp.
17 Anthony and Cleopatra – 1950 – xlvii+262 pp.
18 The First Part of King Henry VI – 1952 - lvi+222 pp.
19 The Second Part of King Henry VI – 1952 – liv- 221 pp.
20The Third Part of King Henry VI – 1952 – xlvi+225 pp.
21 Richard III – 1954 – lxiii+280 pp.
22 Romeo & Juliet – 1955 – liii+249 pp.

All volumes are clothbound, measuring 18 by 13 centimeters.

The general condition: from nice to very nice copies, all carefully used. Some volumes (3-7, 16, 21 en 22) have some marks in pen, some are slightly discoloured (please take a look at the pictures).