SHAKESPEARE, William.

The Works of Shakespeare.

New York: Virtue and Yorston , c. 1873-76.

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"Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow": The Imperial Edition of The Works of Shakespeare

The Imperial edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Folio, two volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate ruling stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, pictorial vignette stamped in gilt to the front panels, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Shakespeare, illustrated with full page steel engravings. In near fine condition with some wear to the endpapers. Edited with notes by Charles Knight.

English poet, playwright, and actor, William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His extant works consist of approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright to this day. Shakespeare’s early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies including Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth; and in his late phase wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances.