37 volumes, folio. Half-titles, numerous illustrations by various artists, including wood engravings, and chromolithographs with hand-coloring. (Slight marginal toning to a few leaves.) Publisher's tan cloth-backed pictorial boards decorated in 4 colors, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others uncut, designed by Bruce Rogers (boards to a few volumes bumped along edges); 24 volumes with glassines (chipped).

LIMITED EDITION, number 187 of 1,950 copies, unsigned. The text for this set comes from the First Folio (1623), with editing by Herbert Farjeon, creator of the Nonesuch edition of Shakespeare, to "restore the original typographic style and spelling" (Newman). Each of the 37 volumes contains illustrations by a leading book artist, including Valenti Angelo, Edward Ardizzone, Eric Gill, E. McKnight Kauffer,  Frans Masereel, Agnes Miller Parker, Arthur Rackham, and Graham Sutherland. Rogers designed the boards after a wall painting of Shakespeare may have seen on a visit to the Davenant house in Oxford. Most volumes with the Limited Editions Club prospectus laid in. Newman 118.