The Works of Shakspere, Imperial Edition Edited by Charles Knight With Illustrations on Steel from pictures by C.W. Cope, W.P. Frith, C.R. Leslie, D. Maclise, E.M. Ward, C. Clint, H.S. Marks, Orchardson,and others. In Two Volumes.London

The Works of Shakspere, Imperial Edition Edited by Charles Knight With Illustrations on Steel from pictures by C.W. Cope, W.P. Frith, C.R. Leslie, D. Maclise, E.M. Ward, C. Clint, H.S. Marks, Orchardson, and others. In Two Volumes. London

Author(s): Shakspere (Shakespeare), William and Charles Knight (Ed.)

Folio.(10.25" x 14.5") 2 volumes. C1870 Full red pebbled leather with ornate, heavy gilt frame surrounding thick blindstamp rule framing a centered gilt title/author with Shakespeare's birthplace depicted in gilt to front cover, heavy gilt and blindstamp frames to rear, all over thick beveled boards. Spine with five raised bands, title/author to second compartment, gilt vol# to fourth, all others with heavy gilt decoration. Yellowed endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece and half title page, with 42 full page engravings of scenes from Shakespeare's plays between the two volumes. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Covers with scuffs and stains (see pic). An impressively large set of books, very heavy, and very pretty. Text in two columns.

From Wiki: Charles Knight (15 March 1791 – 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and established the Local Government Chronicle. Besides many illustrated editions of standard works, including in 1842 an edition of the works of William Shakespeare entitled The Pictorial Shakspere, which had appeared in parts (1838–1841), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old England and The Land we Live in and The Pictorial Gallery of Arts – Useful Arts, the latter based on the Great Exhibition of 1851. He also undertook the series known as Knight's Weekly Volume for All Readers (sometimes referred to as Knight's Weekly Volumes), himself contributing the first volume, a biography of William Caxton (1844), as well as one on Sir Thomas Gresham (1845). Many famous books, Harriet Martineau's Tales, Anna Brownell Jameson's Early Italian Painters and G. H. Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy, appeared for the first time in this series.

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