SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays of William Shakespeare... With the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. London: printed for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, J.F. and C. Rivington et al., 1778-1780. 12 vols., (including 2 supplements), second edition, revised and augmented, 8vo (215 x 132mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare to vol. 1, folding plate, 2 engraved plates to the supplements. (Moderate spotting and browning to all volumes.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt borders, black and red lettering pieces to the spines (wear to all spine ends and loss to two black lettering pieces). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And four related volumes (including another two volume set of the supplement edition, 1780, 8vo) (16).