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This is a no reserve bid on the, complete and rare, 15 volume set of works by William Shakespeare as included in the original set of books published by the Little Leather Library Corporation in New York. These are type III books they were published between 1918 and the early 1920’s. The covers are smooth fake red leather. They are further distinguished by the book title and the seal “Little Leather Library” stamped in gold on the front cover. What makes this set unique is the chest the books are stored in. The cover of the chest depicts scenes from a number of Shakespeare plays, the photo on the inner cover depicts the Three Witches from Macbeth. The Little Leather Library Corporation of New York was founded in 1916 by Albert Bone, Harry Schermnn and Maxwell Sackiem. It was one of the first attempts to mass-market inexpensive books in the United States . All books are in good condition, covers and pages are intact. The end pages are yellowing but all inner pages are a creamy white, all pages are legible. The wear of the books is consistent with the age of the books. Each book measures 3” x 4”. These books are a real collector’s item and will make a nice addition to any library or book collection. Books ncluded in the set are:A Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, MacBeth, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Sonnets, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare ( baptized 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [] was an English poet and playwright , widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England 's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays , 154 sonnets , two long narrative poems , and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon . At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway , who bore him three children: Susanna , and twins Hamnet and Judith . Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men , later known as the King's Men . He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, w he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and t has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance , sexuality , religious beliefs , and whether the works attributed to him were written by others . Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories , genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet ,[d] King Lear , and Macbeth , considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies , also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio , a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognized as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics , in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called " bardolatry ".In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpret...
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