The Works of Shakespear (Shakespeare) In Six Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope. [The Seventh Volume The Whole Revis’d and Corrected, with a Preface, by Dr. Sewell.]

THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF POPE’S SHAKESPEARE, THE FIRST QUARTO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS

The Works of Shakespear (Shakespeare) In Six Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope. [The Seventh Volume The Whole Revis’d and Corrected, with a Preface, by Dr. Sewell.]

SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander Pope.

Item Number: 3897

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson in the Strand, 1723-1725..

First editions of Alexander Pope’s Shakespeare, with the supplementary seventh volume, rarely present, which was issued by another publisher in 1725 and included Venus and Adonis, the poems and an essay on the history of drama. One of 750 copies. Quarto, seven volumes. Bound in full contemporary leather, volume 7 bound in quarter leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. Volume 1 with the engraved frontispiece of Shakespeare by George Vertue, engraved portrait of Alexander Pope. An excellent set in very good condition, rebacked.

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