Nine 64mo vols. 306; 279; 294; 326; 321; 348; 320; 315; 270, liv pp. Frontispiece, title-page vignette, and thirty-seven engraved plates after Thomas Stothard, depicting memorable scenes across Shakespeare's oeuvre: the death of Julius Caesar, Macbeth with his knife on his way to murder Duncan, pastoral tableaux from Love's Labours Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, and a cherubic Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream. A table of contents introduces the first volume, orienting the reader through the plays. In likely original green straight-grain morocco with triple-ruled borders in blind and spine titling in gilt. Spines uniformly faded, small paper defect to fore-edge in volume 6; overall, nearly fine. Housed in likely original red straight-grain morocco library box. (Keynes, p. 88). Booklabel of David & Hermione Chambers laid in.