The Folio Shakespeare. The Complete Plays. In Six Volumes. Edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. SPECIALLY BOUND IN FULL OASIS MOROCCO GOATSKIN BY HUNTER & FOULIS EDINBURGH.

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The Folio Society. 1988. First edition thus, specially and finely bound, to request, in full red morocco gilt. Raised bands and gilt fleur de lis pattern to spine, boards ruled and patterned in gilt with buyer's name "PAMELA" to foot of the upper board of each volume. Cockerell endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine set presented in a handmade dovetail wooden box. VERY SCARCE. The Folio Society produced three series of limited delux editions. This Shakespeare set is from number 2. The limitation is unknown as sets were only bound to order. Please see below for the complete series.1. The ultra-rare series of 5 regular titles from 1960 offered in a special binding, numbered and signed.2. A series of 12 regular box sets between 1968 and 1989 offered in full morocco leather bindings, limited but unnumbered. *3. A series of 9 regular titles between 1990 and 1995, in quarter morocco leather with Ann Muir marbled paper boards and signed by the artists, each limited to 100 numbered copies.* Life of Johnson Boswell (1968, limited to 200 copies) Decameron Boccaccio (1969, limitation unknown) The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature (1970, limitation 2500?) War And Peace Tolstoy (1971, limited to 2000 copies) The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Night (1974, limited to 500 copies) Chronicles of King Arthur Malory (1982, limitation unknown, signed by the illustrator) A Tour Through The Whole Island Of Great Britain Defoe (1983, limitation unknown) The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy (1984, limitation unknown) Jane Austen's Works (1984, limitation unknown, and again in 1996, limited to 1000 copies) Complete Novels Radcliffe (1987, limitation unknown) Complete Plays Shakespeare (1988, limitation unknown bound to order) The French Revolution Carlyle (1989, limited to 1000 copies). N° de ref. del artículo 98857

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