The Complete Works of Shakespeare, from the Original Text

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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Shakespeare, From the Original Text: Carefully Collated and Compared With the Editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier; With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; And a Life of the Great Dramatist

The edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works now brought before the public, has peculiar claims upon popular appreciation. It unites so many of the qualities most to be desired in such a book, whether for the library or the parlour table, that, in spite of the expense which they have been at in producing it, the publishers cannot but believe that they have supplied a want long. Felt in a country where the productions of him who has been justly said to possess the Greatest Name in all literature, receive even a wider and more intelligent admiration than in England itself.

It was the aim of the publishers to bring an edition of the works of him who wrote for all time, issued in this elegant style and illustrated in the most attractive manner within the reach of the intelligent masses of this country; and they feel that in the appearance of this edition, in the excellence of its illustrations - each one of which is not only of interest as the portrait of some distinguished Shakespearian actor, but as an embodiment of one of the scenes of the great dramatist - they may take an honourable pride, as being far in advance of those of any similar publication ever issued here.

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