Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry iv parts 1 and 2, Henry vi part 1, 2, and 3, Julius Caesar, Loves Labours Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Venus and Adonis, Winter's Tale, and the Glossary. 28 (of 40 originally) volume miniature books of Shakespeare's works. Complete with frontispieces and portraits. Edited by J.Talfourd Blair. Dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry and printed in 1904 in Glasgow by David Bryce and Son and published jointly in New York by Frederick A. Stokes Company. Red silk place markers. Original black endpapers. All edges red. The books measure 38 x 55 mm. Original red cloth with gilt triple rose motif decoration on the spines (minor rubbing to edges; some spines slightly sunned). Housed in a unique artisanal twentieth century light-stained 6-compartment hexagonal revolving wooden oak bookcase by an unknown cabinet maker (minor scratching). Attached to a matching small wooden pedestal and rotates to imitate a full-size version of a stylish modern bookcase. Louis Bondy wrote that these volumes are "Bryce's greatest achievement as a leading promoter of miniature books," and, in particular, he describes the Shakespeare as "the most prodigious of these sets" (Bondy, p.114). Bromer, 51. Garbett, 41. Spielmann, 459. Welsh, 6264. American Art Association, 182. This is an uncommon miniature book set, meticulously printed and bound for the David Bryce Company in Glasgow, noted for their miniature book production.


























