Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1902 pages, with General Introduction by Harry Levin, textual editing by G. Blakemore Evans, introductory essays Shakespeare's Text, Chronology and Sources, Appendices A - Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, B - Records, Documents, and Allusions, C - Annals (chronologies). Contributions from Frank Kermode, Herschel Baker, other scholars. Illustrated with seven color plates, 24 b&w plates - depictions of Elizabethan events and persons; dozens of illustrations in the text. Imperial 8vo (8-1/4" x 10-1/4"), brown cloth with picture, tan end papers, boards worn, hinges re-anchored with amateur tape repair, edges lightly soiled, first few pages creased, text block curved at bottom from tilt when on shelf. Pencil marks on four pages in the introduction to King Lear (where there is also a laid-in typed out extract on sources for that play), no other marks observed within, pages bright. Heavy book (5 lb. or >2 kg. packaged), may incur shipping surcharge.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-1224
Title: The Riverside Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0395044022
ISBN 13: 9780395044025
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: G. BLAKEMORE EVANS, HARRY LEVIN, HERSCHEL BAKER, FRANK KERMODE, CHARLES H. SHATTUCK, STAGE HISTORY, ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Bookseller catalogs: English literature; Poetry; Drama;

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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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