The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
First Pickering edition of Shakespeare's works, the "Wreath Edition" with a wreath motif to each title page. Containing the attributed works as well as Samuel Johnson's classic preface.
London: William Pickering, 1825. Octavo (7" by 4.5"), bound in three quarter dark brown morocco over dark red cloth, ruled in gilt, with five raised bands to spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, all pages edges gilt; marbled endpapers, frontispiece to volume one. Bindings remain tight and square, light general shelfwear and rubbing to boards and extremities, a touch of offsetting to endpapers and the title page of volume one. An attractive set, scarce.