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ROLFE'S EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE, IN 40 VOLUMES Edited for Schools, with Notes, by WILLIAM J. ROLFE, LITT.D., formerly Head Master of the High-School, Cambridge, Mass. Copiously Illustrated. 16mo, Flexible Cloth, 56 cents; by mail, 62 cents; Paper, 36 cents; by mail, 40 cents per volume. Attention is especially called to the new edition in handsome, durable paper cover. One of the most notable features of this edition is the convenient form in which it is issued, the entire series consisting of no less than forty volumes, each complete in itself, and sold separately. The introduction to each volume contains the history of the play, an account of the sources of the plot, and selections from the leading English and foreign criticisms upon the characters of the play. The Notes are fuller than in any other school or standard edition, except Halliwell's great folios and Furness's new Variorum. The only illustrated school edition in this country or in the world. 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