N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 32 "SHAKESPEARE IS THE CANON. HE SETS THE STANDARD AND THE LIMITS OF LITERATURE" 32. SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare’s Plays: with his Life, Illustrated wtih many hundred Wood-cuts… New York, 1847. Three volumes. Thick quarto, publisher’s full black pictorial morocco gilt. $3200 Profusely illustrated edition with hundreds of in-text woodcuts, beautifully bound in elaborately gilt pictorial morocco. “Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature” (Harold Bloom). Bookplates. Text fine, occasional marginal dampstaining to endpapers only, expert repairs to joints of handsome bindings. An attractive set.
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