SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM AND VALPY, A.J. [EDITOR] - The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare with One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations from designs from English Artists -in Fifteen Volumes [15 volumes]

Published by Bell and Daldy, London, 1867. Illustrated by Romney, Banks, Hamilton, Wright and others. 15 matching volumes covering all of Shakespeare's 37 plays and his sonnets, illustrated with 137 black and white plates, First Editions Thus, spines rubbed with small tears to top and tail, corners scuffed, some marks to boards and dents to board edges (particularly to volume IV and XIV), embossed bookseller's stamp to a few early leaves, title page and frontispiece detached in one volume, some hinges cracked but all boards held, crease in cloth to one front board, water stain to lower edge of first few pages of Volume IV, some foxing within, fair to good condition, green cloth, gilt title and deocrative band to spines, black borders to boards, coloured endpapers, gilt top edges, octavo, 17 cm x 11.5 cm, Hardback.