The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Twenty-One Volumes, With The Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To Which are Added, Notes, by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Revised and Augmented by Isaac Reed, With a Glossarial Index. The Sixth Edition. (London: J. Nichols and Son, F. C. & J. Rivington, J. Stockdale, et al.,1813), octavo (8.75 in.), bound into likely Edwardian full calf boards imitating late Georgian style, gilt rules throughout, red morocco title plates on spine with 1813 date at base, marbled endpapers and page edges; the plays are preceded by three full volumes of introductory prolegomena devoted to the life and works of William Shakespeare; three engravings in Volume I, fold-outs in volumes 3 and 11, occasional medieval-style engravings interspersed in the text.

By descent from the Estate of the late Noah Chatham, who received the lot offered here as a gift from his grandmother, DeWitt Chatham Hanes, wife of Ralph Hanes, Sr., Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Light shelf wear with trivial scuffs and chips to leather; tight binding and internally fine save for 30 pages in Vol. 9 that are creased at the lower edge; overall in very good condition with great visual appeal.

$1,000 - 2,000