Assembled Set of Miniature "Shakespeare's Works,"

Description:

Assembled Set of Miniature "Shakespeare's Works," Knickerbocker Novelty Company, New York, comprising twenty-three individual books, containing "carefully edited and compared with the best texts" versions of Shakespeare's dramatic works, including The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and others, in a pebbled leather-covered paperboard box, each book 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.

Note: Jared Bowen writes, "In these turbulent times, we would all do well to have the poetry and wisdom of William Shakespeare at our fingertips. These smart little editions allow us to go one step further and keep them handily in our breast pocket. Let Shakespeare be your guide and 'to thine own self be true.'"
Estimate $50-75

some duplicates mean that the total number of plays represented is seventeen, box is poor condition with top separated and leather peeling off, books intact with wear.


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