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Bell's Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night or What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV parts I and II; Henry VI parts I II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens and revised from the last Editions
ref. 57101London: John Bell and John Cawthorn 1784-1807. Shakespeare JOHN BELL EDITION later printings mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets 16 x 10cm. Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803 with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784 to 1807 the later ones being printed for John Cawthorn all with tissue guards. Contemporary quarter pigskin with gilt titles to spines and marbled paper over boards. Quite heavy rubbing and bumping. Eight volumes with some chipping or loss to spine head / tail. Most volumes heavily soiled to spine. Very good. A rare collection. A complex set of books made up from mixed printings of this important early 'cheap' edition first published in 1774. Missing 'Two Noble Kinsmen' and 'The Merchant of Venice' 'Pericles' and 'Edward III' not then being considered canon. John Bell was a seminal figure in British printing and typography responsible for dropping the long S and for developing new popular typefaces. London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807 unknown
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