Publication of The Works of Shakespear in six volumes.

Call Number: 822.33S527. Location: Armstrong Browning Library Stokes Oversize Collection

"Carefully rev. and cor. by the former editions, and adorned with sculptures designed and executed by the best hands," these volumes of Shakespeare include a foreword by Alexander Pope and engravings of each play by Hubert-François Gravelot. Although this edition was published in 1743-44, the first edition dates back to 1723. Notation within the volumes indicate that they were once owned by Isabella Wedderburn, but she gifted them to her grandson, Colin Mackenzie, in 1852. Included are pictures of Gravelot's engraving of act 3, scene 6 of King Lear in which Lear, Kent, Edgar, and the Fool take shelter from the storm in a shed.