Shakespeare, William. Complete Works of Shakespeare. Andersons, Edinburgh Ltd. for Allied Newspapers. [London]. 1932.

Shakespeare, William. Works. Andersons, Edinburgh Ltd. for Allied Newspapers. [London]. 1932. Circa 1932. Black rexine (imitation black morocco) bindings. Complete set of 40 volumes. Comprising: the Tempest; The Two gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; Much ado about nothing; Love's labour's lost; A midsummer night's dream; The merchant of Venice; As you like it; The taming of the shrew; All's well that ends well; Twelfth night; The winter's tale; King John; Richard II; Henry IV, part 1; Henry IV, part 2; Henry V; Henry VI, part 1; Henry VI, part 2; Henry VI, part 3; Richard III; Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Pericles [Prince of Tyre];Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets and poems; Glossary. Original plywood 3 shelf free-standing bookshelf (some minuscule wear on the side near the bottom). Printed in Scotland and published by Allied Newspapers to commemorate the opening of the The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon opened on 23 April, 1932 on the site adjacent to the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (opened 19 April 1879), which had been destroyed by fire on 6 March 1926. In rexine (imitation black morocco), and complete with original simple 3 tier oak bookshelf. Original black bindings (some wear and rubbing). The text and the design for the spines was formerly created and published as the 1904 Ellen Terry edition by David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, who went out of business just at the start of World War One in 1914. Andersons acquired many of the publishing assets of Bryce and re-published them in the following decades. Readers of Kemsley Group newspapers - formed in 1924 under the name of Allied Newspapers Ltd.  with the Daily Record, Sunday Mail and the Aberdeen Press and Journal and Evening Express - could get the whole 40 volumes with the free Miniature  bookcase for 10 shillings  plus six Shakespeare Tokens cut from the papers where they appeared daily in 1934. The adverts claimed "40 VEST POCKET VOLUMES OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE WITH MINIATURE BOOKCASE. 40 PERFECT "EASY-TO-READ BOOKS. EACH BOOK HAS FROM 250 TO 500 PAGES. COMPLETE 40 VOLUMES HAVE 15,700 PAGES INCLUDES BIOGRAPHY ANDGLOSSARY (360 PAGES). THE 40 VOLUMES CONTAIN 500,000 WORDS. EACH BOOK 1S 2 1-16 in. HIGH BY
1 1/4 in. WIDE. BOOKS VARY FROM l/8 in. to 1/4 in. IN THICKNESS. EACH VOLUME WEIGHS FROM 1/2 oz. to 1 oz. WEIGHT OF 40 VOLS. WITH BOOKCASE, 2lb 6oz. Each Book is Bound in Morocco-grained Rexine with Title and Decorative Design on Spine in Gilt.
The Printing, on Good Quality Paper, is clear and easy to read, as is shown in Actual Size Pages, Reproduced below. ONLY TEN SHILLINGS. THE SMALLEST BOOKS PUBLISHED IN READABLE TYPE". Bondy, 123. OCLC, 43008884. WorldCat locates 13 copies in the black rexine binding worldwide.  #5557