The Poetical Works of Shakspeare. With the Life of the Author William Shakespeare
Cooke's Edition. 214 pages. Full bound brown leather. Contains frontispiece, extra illustrated title page (dated 1797) and 3 further plates. Ex-Libris plate to front pastedown. Includes 1 contents page to rear, unpaginated. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Notable tanning to text pages opposite all plates, and to frontis' tissue guard. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with tears to spine edges. Small area of loss to bottom of spine. Hole to middle of rear board. Complete splits to joints, held by binding cords.