Physical description

Bound Compilation of Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare's Complete Works
Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: William James Craig
Publisher: Oxford/Oxford University Press
Date: 1894

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine cover with typed text PAT 822.3 CRA
Pastedown front endpaper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service.
The front loose endpaper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service.
The Flypaper is missing.

Summary

The 1894 volume of Shakespeare's Complete Works, published by Oxford, is a historic and highly regarded edition in the history of Shakespearean publishing. This volume is the "Oxford Shakespeare," edited by the renowned Irish scholar William James Craig (1843–1906). Craig originally compiled and published this single-volume, modern-spelling edition for Oxford in late 1891 (often referred to as the 1891/1892 edition), making the 1894 printing one of the earliest subsequent editions. While the spine or title page reads "Oxford" or "Oxford University Press," it was printed under the prestigious Clarendon Press imprint.