12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 2
 

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Shakespeare, William; Theobald, L. (ed.) The Works of Shakespeare in Eight Volumes Collated...

Shakespeare, William; Theobald, L. (ed.) The Works of Shakespeare in Eight Volumes Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: With Notes, Explanatory and Critical By Mr Theobald. London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, B. Dod, G. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, S. Crowder and Co., W. Johnston, C. Corbet, T. Lownds, and T. Caslon, 1762. 12mo (8 vols). Full calf; engraved frontis. and 36 plates (one for each play). Theobald's Shakespeare Restored appeared in 1726, correcting Pope's edition of the previous year. Pope used Theobald's work for his own second edition and then attacked him in the Dunciad. Theobald's own edition of this eight volume Shakespeare was first published in 1733 and remains a valuable work. He corrected corruptions and made use of marginal notes to explain his opinions, grounding them in close study of early printings and Shakespeare's original sources. A second edition was printed in 1740, and a new issue in 1752 from which this descends as it includes Shakespeare's will, first included in the prefatory notes in 1752.
Not Sold

 

A scuffed and read set with cracking of joints - although all boards remain attached - however despite some foxing and offsetting from plates, a generally good set.

 


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