Vest-Pocket Shakespeare. The Allied Press Newspaper Miniature Shakespeare Series - 40 volumes

London: Allied Newspapers Ltd, 1934. 5 x 3.5 cm. Black thin leatherette wraps with the titles and ornamental stamping in gray ink on the spines. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece illustrations. All displayed on a miniature wooden bookshelf [8 3/4" tall by 7 1/2" wide]. The titles and designs on the spines are a bit faint. The upper extremities of the text block edges are darkened. The text blocks of "Pericles" and "Cymbeline" have come away from the spine, and roughly a half a dozen of the volumes have cracks to the text block (often just a single crack). Complete. Overall very good. At the beginning of each volume is a brief summary of the play, a list of its characters, and the date on which it was probably written. A delightful collection of forty miniature volumes containing Shakespeare's complete works. (Inventory #: 67486)