Ellen Terry Shakespeare

This edition is carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J. Talfourd Blair.Some volumes punlished by Andersons of Edinburgh, successors to David Bryce. Lettering labels on spine. In miniature oak revolving bookcase with circular oak stand, measures 160 x 107 x 107 mm., housing 40 volumes (complete works of Shakespeare, Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, Poetry and Glossary). This oak stand is one of the more uncommon and upmarket variations, constructed in oak instead of the more usual sycamore, and with the sides filled in as opposed to the more usual open sides. This item is a good example of the publisher, David Bryce, using outworkers to provide some of the stands and some of the various cases that they offered their customers of their miniature books. Printed at the University Press, Glasgow on very thin paper, provided by Henry Frowde of the Oxford University Press. Each volume is 32 x 49 mm. Original blue cloth spines; covers with glossy celluloid - othrwise known as 'French ivory', or 'ivorine' - plaques titled in red and gilt; spines with black labels and gilt titling. One spine missing label; many labels chipped and faded; spines sunned and slightly chipped at edges; some hinges slightly cracked. A similar set of the same edition, rebound by Riviere, is in the incomparable Queen Mary's Dolls' House in Windsor Castle. Bondy, 114. Garbett, 41. Spielmann, 459. Welsh, 6264.