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Originally published in 1927, this is the 5th reprint, published in 1941. The Kingsway Shakespeare: The Complete Dramatic & Poetic Works by William Shakespeare. General Introduction Biography and an Introduction to each play by Frederick D. Losey M.A. And with Glossary & Self-pronouncing Index to Characters With Portrait & Fourteen Plates in Colour by Sir Frank Dicksee, Arthur Rackham, Frank Brangwyn, Dudley Hardy, Eleanor F. Brickdale and other eminent artists. Fine condition, inscription hand written on front end page. Excellent condition of cover, spine and page edge block, with no tears, scratches or fading.

The Complete Dramatic and Poetic Works of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William; Edited by Frederick D. Losey. Published by the John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1926. First Edition edited by Losey. No additional printings on copyright page. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xvi, 1328pp. with frontispiece portrait; biography and an introduction to each play by Frederick D. Losey and with glossary and self-pronouncing index to characters. Red leather boards, with gilt titles to front and spine with decorative gilt embellishments; all edges gilt with red stain beneath; red endpapers; thumb index along fore-edge. Contents are in fine condition; some rubbing to spine and otherwise binding is in fine condition, tight and square. A beautiful copy. When the John C. Winston Company advertised the “Losey” edition of Shakespeare’s Works in 1926, they offered it in two bindings – Extra cloth, gold top, gold stamping for $3.00 and French Morocco, limp, red under gold edges for $4.00; this copy is the latter. Frederick Douglas Losey (1886-1932) was an American Shakespearian scholar and elocutionist and was considered "America's greatest interpreter of Shakespeare."