BINDINGS. - William SHAKESPEARE. The Works… with a Memoir and Essay on His Genius by Barry Cornwall. London: William S. Orr, 1844. 3 vols., 4to (256 x 161mm.) Numerous engraved plates after Kenny Meadows, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. (Occasional spotting and creasing, minor soiling, marginal damp-staining to several leaves in volume 1.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, burgundy morocco lettering pieces to spines, g.e. (rubbing to all extremities, surface wear to top of volume 3). Provenance: William Foss, Stockton-on-Tees (name-plates to front pastedowns). - And a further twenty-one volumes, mainly 19th century literature (including 'The Illustrated London Almanack', 1845, 4to) (24).