Product Description
Condition Very Good
Published by H.Lintott et al
Second Edition
London 1740
Very good second edition of the work first published in 1734 which superceded Pope's edition and has been the cornerstone of many editions since.
8 volumes in contemporary calf sometime recently rebacked with raised bands and red title labels.
Frontis portrait of Shakespeare to volume one and a facing plate to each separate work througfhout, after H.Gravelot, engraved by G.Vander Gucht.
# 20946
Lewis Theobald, 1688-1744, born Sittingbourne, Kent, a classicist with great discrimination as a textual editor. Scarce, complete and in very good condition
Collectors books - Literature 