Regency Advertisements: Shakespeare in Miniature

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SHAKESPEARE IN MINIATURE SHARPE'S EDITION Complete in Nine Volumes embellished with an elegant Portrait price Two Shillings each sewed and labelled or Two Shillings and Sixpence neatly half bound Red Roan Back and Lettered a new and beautiful minia ture Edition of the PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with a complete GLOSSARY accurately printed and without the smallest abridgement from the Text of the late Mr Steevens and now offered to the Pa tronage of the Public in a form combining an ele gance portability and cheapness hitherto unattempted Though the editions lately published of the Plays of our immortal Dramatist have been numerous be yond all precedent the Proprietors of this Edition con sider any apology for adding to the number perfectly unnecessary Its intention is obviously to facilitate and extend the knowledge of an Author of whom Eng land has just reason to be proud and whose works are such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much London Printed for John Sharpe opposite York House Piccadilly and HD Symonds Paternoster Row and sold by every Bookseller Stationer and Newsman in the United Kingdom

This ad appeared in the March 1806 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

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