BINDING - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Complete Works and Life, London, 1904, 4 volumes, large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in contemporary burgundy half calf gilt (covers stained, spines lightly rubbed). "The Hampstead Edition." (4)

BINDING - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616).  Complete Works and Life. London: James Finch & Co., Limited, 1904. 4 volumes, large 8vo (188 x 125mm). 4 photogravure portrait frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, and 5 plates (some light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in contemporary burgundy half calf, the spines with stylised foliate decoration in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, pictorial endpapers (the covers stained, with a much heavier stain to the lower cover of the Comedies volume, some cloth lifting from the upper cover of the Tragedies volume, light rubbing to the spines). "The Hampstead Edition." (4)