Knight's Shakespeare illustrated

Updated September 24, 2026

Lot number39
Estimate300.00 - 500.00 USD
AuctionFall Rare Books, Manuscripts, Historical Prints, & Ephemera
DateOctober 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT
Auction houseQuinn's Auction Galleries
LocationFalls Church, Virginia

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Works of Shakespeare with notes by Charles Knight. London: Virtue & Company; New York: Patterson and Neilson, [1876]. 2 volumes. Folio (257 x 364 mm). Additional engraved vignette title pages, frontispiece portrait in each volume, and numerous full-page steel engraved plates throughout after Cope, Ward, Leslie, Frith, and others. Publisher's 3/4 leather and pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, upper covers centered with gilt bust of Shakespeare, all edges gilt, light blue silk endpapers. Imperial edition, originally issued to subscribers in parts from 1873-76. Condition: Hinges expertly tightened, leather rubbing to corners and spine, some edgewear.

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