The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Collins Clear Type Press, London, Glasgow U. K., No Date. Hardcover. Poor/--. 7 1/4 H x 5 1/2 W x 1 3/4 inch. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book FAIR/ Covers Fair to Poor. Boards and spine are burgundy leather, lettering gilt. FRONT COVER has a few miscellaneous light and dark stains, has quite a bit of edge wear with boards exposed in places and corner tips worn open but it is in one piece with no scratches or holes and has a gilt coat of arms embossed in the centre. SPINE is quite worn with bottom edge worn open and two 3/8 inch tears, main part of spine is sunned much lighter than front and back covers but gilt text is shiny and perfectly legible, top of spine has a 1 7/8 inch vertical tear at join with upper front cover, has an L shaped tear next to that about 1/2 inch long, near back edge of spine there is a 2 inch vertical tear and there is a 1 3/8 inch vertical tear at join with upper back cover, top of leather spine has chipping and both sides of spine are a bit rubbed but not rubbed through. BACK COVER has edge wear and the corner edges are worn through for 3/4 inch on top corner and 1 1/4 inches on bottom corner, back cover has more misc. dark stains than front cover has. Page edges are gilt and are sunned to the point of dulling them. Inner end papers are white. Inside of book is reasonably tight and clean but there are several pages at front and back that show light water staining and slight waves because of it. The front cover has had some spine damage because inside someone has put a 2 x 6 inch piece of duct tape. All end papers are stained and dirty. Introduction by St. John Ervine. Contents include Great Works, Poems, Photogravure Illustrations, Coloured Illustrations, Sonnets, A Lover’s Complaint, Sonnets To Sundry Notes Of Music, Index To The Characters In Shakespeare’s Dramatic Works, Glossary.