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Shakespeare, William : The Complete Works of Shakespeare, from the Original Test: Carefully Collated and Compared with the Editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; and a Life of the Great Dramatist, (cont.)

Johnson, Fry and Company, New York, New York

(cont.) by Charles Knight. Illustrated with New and Finely Excuted Steel Engravings, Chiefly Portraits in Character of Celebrated American Actors, Drawn from Life, Expressly for this Edition. Tragedies [Comedies. Historical Plays]. Three volume set in quarter brown leather binding. Published 1858-61. Gilt title with volume contents on raised band spine, gilt edging to leather binding. I: Comedies. 640 pages; steel plates: William Shakespeare, Mrs Abbott as Miranda, Mr Warren as Lance, Fanny Kemble (Butler) as Isabella, Henry and Thomas as the Two Dromios, Miss Julia Dean as Beatrice, Mr John Gilbert as Dogberry, Mr E.L. Davenport as Bendick, Miss Lizzie Weston as Oberon, Mr W.E. Burton as Bottom, Mr John E. Owens as Launcelot Gobbo, Mr James W. Wallack as Shylock, Miss Laura Keene as Portia, Mr James W. Wallack as Jacques, Mrs Mowatt as Rosalind, Mr & Mrs Wood as Touchstone & Audrey, Mr James E. Murdoch as Petruchio, Charlotte Cushman as Katharina, Mr John Drew as Sir Andrew Agne-Cheek, Mrs Julia Bennett Barrow, Mr & Mrs Burton as Sir Toby Belch and Maria, Mr Bass as Malvolio, Mr Dgott as Leonetes, Mr W.E. Burton as Autolyeus. II: Historical Plays. pages 641-1097; steel engravings: Mr James E. Murdoch as Falconbridge, Mr & Mrs Charles Kean as King John & Lade Constance, Mrs D.P. Bomers as Lady Constance, Mr P. Richings as King Richard II, Mr Hackett as Falstaff, Mr Lester as Prince of Wales, Mr Edwin Forrest as Ricahrd III, Mrs Farren as Queen Katharine, Mr C.W. Couldock as Cardinal Wolsey. III: pages 1099-1733, liv; steel engravings: Mr Edwin Forrest as Othello, Mr Edwin Forrest as Coriolanus, Thomas Hamblin as Coriolanus, Mr Wm. Weatley as Romeo, Mr J.W. Wallack, Jr. as Merrutio, Mrs Julia Dan Haynes as Juliet, Miss Davenport as Juliet, Mr Jamieson as Brutus, Miss Charlotte Cushman as Lady Macbeth, Mr Edwin Forrest as Macbeth, Mr henry Placide as Polonius, Mr Edwin Forrest as Hamlet, Mr E.L. Davenport as Hamlet, Miss Eliza Logan as Cordelia, Mr Fleming as Edgar, Mr Edwin Forrest as King Lear, Mr C.L. Davenport as Othello, Mr Edwin Booth as Iago, Mr Edward Eddy as Posthumus. The set contains all of Shakespeare's plays and writings with notes by the leading authorities of the day.. Book Condition: Very Good

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