The Doubtful Plays of Shakespere
Revised from Original Editions with Historical and Analytical Introductions
and Notes Critical and Expanatory.
By Henry Tyrrell, Esq.
Hardback. No dust jacket. Published by John Tallis & Company, London, ND, c1850.
Approx size: 28.5cm H x 21cm W (11 ¼” H x 8 ¼” W). 484pp.
Half bound boards with decorative bands to the spine; Titles and decorative edges of leather in gilt; Marbled outer page edges; Plain brown paper pastedowns; Good frontispiece steel engraving of the actor Charles Kean. Condition: Boards & spine are bumped, scuffed & rubbed, especially at the extremities; Two small open tears (top & bottom) to the outer front hinge; Minor foxing to the first few pages, title & frontis hardly touched, after that pages are clean bright and tight; Hinges good; No inscriptions. Not ex-library. All pages present. Good
Contents include: Titus Andronicus; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; A Yorkshire Tragedy; London Prodigal; Sir John Oldcastle (First Part); Thomas Lord Cromwell; The Puritan, Or The Widow of Watling Street; Locrine; King Edward the Third; The Merry Devil of Edmonton; Fair Em, The Miller’s Daughter of Manchester; Mucedorus; Arden, Of Faversham; The Birth of Merlin, or The Child Hath Found His Father; The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Overall in Good+ Condition.