The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson

260mm x 210mm hardcover published 1910 by William Heinemann. Original blue cloth, lightly worn in places, with a short split at the head of the spine. Front cover gilt illustration and titling, and gilt titling on the spine. 40 full colour plates by Irish illustrator Hugh Thomson with captioned tissue guards, plate facing page 16 is detached, but present in place. 170 pages, rough-cut fore-edges, some foxing in places. Split along binding at first end-paper, that has been reinforced with a strip of heavier paper, and split starting at binding of rear pastedown.