8vo. viii, 1079pp, [1]. Finely bound by MacLehose of Glasgow (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine slightly dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of David Stanley William Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie, dated October 1866, to front blank fly-leaf. Light spotting and browning to initial and terminal leaves.

The Globe Edition of Shakespeare's works, finely bound by MacLehose, edited by English classical scholars William George Clark (1821 – 1878) and William Aldis Wright (1831 – 1914). First published in nine volumes as The Cambridge Shakespeare between 1863 and 1866, this 1864 collection, on fine India paper, removes the extensive footnotes and critical apparatus of the individual volumes.

This copy belonged to a young David Stanley William Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie (1856 – 1900), Scottish Peer, soldier, and landowner.