First Illustrated Edition of Shakespeare: A Duo of Orphan Volumes from 1709

The Works of Mr. William Shakespeare Volumes V & VI.

Published by Jacob Tonson in 1709. Lacking the frontispiece woodcuts of Shakespeare. 

Volume V contains Romeo & Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear & Othello.

Volume VI contains Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Pericles Price of Tyre, The London Prodigal, The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, The History of Sir John Oldcastle The Good Lord Cobham, The Puritan or The Widow of Watlings-Street, A Yorkshire Tragedy and The Tragedy of Locrine The Eldest Son of King Brutus.

The woodcuts are lacking in volume V, they are present in volume VI but have been hand colored at some point.

Rebound by Malcom Summers in full sheepskin produced by J. Hewit & Sons Edinburgh Scotland.