.O.Halliwell:Complete works of Shakspere 1851;illustra – Greenville

Div.1-(vol-1) (I have all 8)!! but your biding on 1-book.My  greatgrandmother got these from a lady she work for they were giving to me from my grandmother and they both has, long SINCE past.I can't find these books any were on the WEB.  

as state> J.O Halliwell, Esq,FRS,FSA member of the council of the shakspere society,and other commentators. ; The Complete Works of SHAKSPERE Revised from the Original Editions: COMEDIES with historical introductionory,and notes explanatory essay on his phraseology & metre

This book has the original Gold Engraved price on the edge, as stated: 2$25 CENTS 

This particular volume of Shakspere is mostly dedicated to: (as stated), "To William Charles Macready, Esq., The regenerator of the stage, Who restored to it the pure and unsullied text of The Immortal Shakspere, and who for Forty Years has been the poets Interpreter to the people; and by this Lofty Genius and personal virtues shed a glory around the dramatic literature of his country, This Edition of the works of our national poet is dedicated as a Sincere Tribute of Admiration and esteem By The Publishers." 

LONDON,
Published by John Tallis & Company  LONDON AND & New York
Binding:CLOTH: PINKISH RED WITH LETTERS AND ENGRAVES GOLD
Size: 8X11
240 Pages / FULL PAGES OF SCENE Daguerreotype/engraved
Overall Condition is: FAIR ++
Historical and Analytical Introductions to each Play also Notes explanatory and Critical and a Life of the poet and other eminent commentators; elegantly and appropriately illustrated by portraits engraved on stell, from daguerreotypes of the greatest and most intellectual actors of the age; taken in the embodiment of the varied and life-like characters of our great national poet brown decorative  cloth cover has gold picture all over book on front and spine;t titles; binding tigh for its age; gold edge pages;some page have light browning pages; shelfworn and edgeworn; 

I managed to make out some of the most occuring artist name as: Frontpiece- T.D. Scott from a Daguerreotype by Paine of Islington & B. Holl, & other famous artists.

Daguerreotype by William Paine of Islington, London, circa 1855

This is a sixth plate daguerreotype by Paine, who had a studio in Islington, London at 5 Trinity Row.
The subjects are, I believe, a brother and his younger sister.

History

While the daguerreotype was not the first photographic process to be invented, earlier processes required hours for successful exposure, making daguerreotype the first commercially viable photographic process and the first to permanently record and fix an image with exposure time compatible with portrait photography.

The daguerreotype is named after one of its inventors, French artist and chemist Louis J.M. Daguerre, who announced its perfection in 1839 after years of research and collaboration with Joseph Nicephore Niepce, applying and extending a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): a silver and chalk mixture darkens when exposed to light. The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process on January 9 of that year.

Daguerre's French patent was acquired by the French Government. On August 19, 1839 the French Government announced the invention a gift "Free to the World". Almost simultaneously in England, Miles Berry, acting on Daguerre's behalf, had obtained a patent for the daguerreotype process on August 14, 1839.

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