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The Works of William Shakespeare edited with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, The Leicester Square Edition, 1878, Bickers and son publishers, leather binding with raised spine & gilt lettering, with portrait and 21 illustrations from The Boydell Gallery in Permanent photography.1002 pages, 19 cms x 24.5 cms x 5.2 cms, condition: very good.
Daughter of the music publisher Vincent Novello, Mary Cowden Clarke (1809 - 1898) grew up in London amid her father's literary and artistic circle. Charles and Mary Lamb were family friends, and their Tales from Shakespeare (1807) inspired the young Mary to become a scholar of the Bard.