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Synopsis

Edited, with a glossary by w. j. craig. (oxford standard authors).

Item Description

8vo. 7.5 x 5.75 inches. viii + 1164 + [3] pp. Text in double columns. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with gilt borders; spine in compartments with gilt bands, in black slipcase, with printed paper label. Top edge blue. A little wear to slipcase, but otherwise a very good copy. 1979 gift inscription on first free endpaper. Reprint of the Complete Works of Shakespeare in the Oxford Standard Authors edition. At the end are indexes of characters and first lines of songs, etc., a glossary and a table of the dating sequence of the plays. William James Craig (1843-1906) edited the first complete Oxford Shakespeare in 1891. The first Standard Authors edition was published in 1905.