William Shakespeare — The New Temple Shakespeare

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1942-9. Leather. A collection of the 'new temple' editions of the works of the renowned William Shakespeare, including his plays, poems and stories, all in their original crushed morocco bindings. The "New Temple Shakespeare" editions. "King Lear" 1945), "Twelfth Night" (1947),  "King Henry IV Part I"(1946),  King Henry IV Part II" (1942), "Macbeth" (1946), "King Henry V"(1947), "Hamlet"(1946), "Measure for Measure" (1944), "A midsummer"s Night"s Dream" (1942), "Titus Andronicus (1949), "A You Like It" (1946), "Othello" (1947), "Troilus and Cressida" (1943), "Cymbeline" (1942), "Antony and Cleopatra (1946), "The Sonnets of Shakespeare" (1949), "Much Ado About Nothing" (1947), "The Winter"s Tale" (1947), "King Henry VI Part I" (1948, "King Henry VI Part II" (1948), "King Henry VI Part III" (1948),  "All"s Well That Ends Well" (1944), "Love"s Labour"s Lost" (1942), "The Merchant of Venice" (1944), "The Taming of the Shew" (1946), "King Richard III" (1946), "King Richard II" (1947), "The Tempest" (1948), "Romeo and Juliet" (1948), "Pericles" (1946), "Julius Ceasar" (1943), "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (1946), "Timon of Athens" (1934), "Coriolanus" (1942), "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (1949), "Venus and Adonis, with The Rape of Lucrece and The Phoenix & Turtle" (1946), "King Henry VIII" (1935), "King John" (1946), and "The Comedy of Errors" (1948). In the publisher's original crushed morocco. Lacking original dust wrappers. A set of pocket sized volumes from the celebrated author, William Shakespeare, including his popular sonnets, famous plays and many stories. A thirty-nine volume set.  In the publisher's original crushed morocco. Lacking original dust wrappers. Externally generally smart with slight marks, rubbing to the extremities with small closed tears to the leather to the heads and tails of the spines to a number of volumes, and rubbing to the joints to the odd volume, with front joint tender to ''Measure for Measure&apos. A slight lean to 'King Lear&apos. Bookplate of "Hamish Orr-Ewing' to the front endpapers to the odd volume. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Good . Ill.: None stated. Good .