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Vintage The Yale Shakespeare Hardback Blue 1920s-1950s Set Of 40 Books.
Blue Cloth Bindings, legible gold lettering on spine. Hardcover. No jacket issued. A complete set of 40 books. Very good condition considering the age. Sunned and soiled to spine which are shown in photos. Clean unmarked internally. Highly collectible.
The mid-1960s assembled or reprinted The Yale Shakespeare is a classic 40-volume scholarly collection published by Yale University Press, originally launched in 1918–1919 and frequently reissued with mixed printings through the 1950s and 1960s.
1
Shakespeare of Stratford – Third Printing, December 1947
2
Shakespeare's Sonnets – Fifth Printing, August 1965
3
Shakespeare's Poems – Second Printing, February 1966
4
Antony and Cleopatra – Fifth Printing, June 1965
5
All's Well That Ends Well – Third Printing, March 1965
6
As You Like It – Second Printing, August 1965
7
The Comedy of Errors – Fourth Printing, March 1965
8
Coriolanus – Sixth Printing, November 1957
9
Cymbeline – Second Printing, February 1961
10
Hamlet – Thirteenth Printing, Revised Edition, February 1966
11
King Henry IV, Part I – Fifth Printing, March 1965
12
King Henry IV, Part II – Sixth Printing, August 1965
13
Henry the Fifth – Third Printing, March 1961
14
Henry the Sixth, Part I – Third Printing, February 1961
15
Henry the Sixth, Part II – First Published, 1923
16
Henry the Sixth, Part III – Copyright 1923
17
Henry the Eighth – Second Printing, October 1959
18
Julius Caesar – Tenth Printing, September 1957
19
King John – Second Printing, March 1965
20
King Lear – Eighth Printing, December 1963
21
Love's Labour's Lost – Third Printing, May 1960
22
Macbeth – Eighth Printing, February 1966
23
Measure for Measure – Revised Edition, October 1954
24
The Merchant of Venice – Fifth Printing, September 1950
25
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Copyright 1922
26
A Midsummer Night's Dream – Ninth Printing, August 1965
27
Much Ado About Nothing – Eighth Printing, November 1965
28
Othello – Eleventh Printing, November 1965
29
Pericles, Prince of Tyre – Second Printing, September 1965
30
Richard the Second – Fourth Printing, March 1965
31
Richard the Third – Fifth Printing, March 1965
32
Romeo and Juliet – Fifth Printing, March 1965
33
The Taming of the Shrew – Second Printing, March 1965
34
The Tempest – Revised Edition, November 1955
35
Timon of Athens – Second Printing, February 1966
36
Titus Andronicus – Copyright, 1926
37
Troilus and Cressida – Third Printing, November 1965
38
Twelfth Night – Second Printing, March 1965
39
The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Third Printing, February 1966
40
The Winter's Tale – Copyright 1918