The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare. Edited by Charles Knight.
London: Charles Knight and Co, nd.
Price: $3,000.00
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Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings by Harvey, Buss, Creswick, et. al. T. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary pebbled full morocco extra, a.e.g.
Item #376019
From 1837 [Knight] had been occupied with what he himself probably regarded as his magnum opus. From the time of his boyish experience he had wished to edit Shakespeare... [the Pictorial Shakespeare was] 'the first in the country conceived in the right spirit,' and no future editor can afford to neglect it" (DNB XI:246). Includes Knight's biography of Shakespeare. First published by Charles Knight and Co. in 1843, the Pictorial Edition saw print many further times throughout the 19th century. Originally published in eight volumes,as here.
