BINDING. – Henry Noel HUMPHREYS. Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. London: Longman, Brown, Green et al., 1857. Second edition, 8vo (193 x 146mm.) Chromolithographed first page, initials in black and gold, ruling in gold. (Text-block cracking at ‘Contents’ leaf, spotting to preliminaries and rear blank.) Original cloth-backed black papier-mâché binding with oval relief portrait of Shakespeare to centre and author’s initials to lower cover, g.e. (corner losses to upper cover of binding, two cracks to lower cover, extremities rubbed). – And a further ten illustrated volumes (including ‘The Prism of Imagination’ by The Baroness de Calabrella and with illustrations heightened by Owen Jones, [lacking several leaves], 1844, 8vo, and G. Baxter’s ‘The Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings’, [1837], [with 8 of 11 plates], 4to, and ‘Passages From Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club’ [disbound, lacking 4 leaves], [1865], 4to) (11).