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202449958Folio Society 2024. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus text in two colours with 43 illustrations; blocked cloth ribbon markers a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
150257Bickers and Son J. Bumpus J. Field et al 1869. 4 vols. Tall 8vo 9 x 6 ins. Contemporary half calf on marbled paper-laid boards with matching page edges and endpapers spines gilt ruled in six compartments with contrasting labels rubbed at edges of spines and corners - otherwise a VG set. Pp. various with engraved portrait frontispiece in vol I previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down of vol I; no inscriptions. Bickers and Son J. Bumpus J. Field et al, 1869 unknown
193027898London: Allied Newspapers Ltd. 1930. Book. Good. Leather. 64mo - up to 3" tall. The Works of William Shakespeare 40 vols front cover unstuck but attached Julius Caesar King Henry IV Part 1 King Henry IV Part 2 front cover unstuck but attached The Winter's Tale Much Ado About Nothing Titus Andronicus Comedy of Errors Bio and Glossary Missing All's Well That End Well King Henry V King Henry VIII Sonnets and Poems King Henry VI Part 1 King Henry VI Part 2 King Henry VI Part 3 Twelfth Night King Lear Timon of Athens Pericles Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew Midsummer Night's Dream Merchant of Venice Two Gentleman of Verona As You Like It Troilus & Cressida Othello The Moor of Venice Hamlet Prince of Denmark King John Merry Wives of Windsor Romeo & Juliet Antony & Cleopatra Macbeth Love's Labour's Lost TheTempest Cymbeline Measure For Measure King Richard II King Richard III Coriolanus Venus and Adronis & The Rape of Lucrece Each book measures just 5cm by 3.5cm . Allied Newspapers Ltd. Hardcover
190934589London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. First Edition First Printing with the Thomson Illustrations. With 24 mounted colour plates by Thomson including a frontispiece each with a cptioned tissued guard. Quarto handsomely bound in the publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and red titles with dark green pictorial decorations to the upper cover. xxxvi 143 1 pp. A beautiful copy bright and fresh the binding is very attractive and finely preserved internally well preserved with some of the usual spotting occasional to the foredges a bit of mellowing the plates and tissue guards all in excellent condition. SHAKEPEARE'S PLEASANT WORK PRESENTED IN aS PLEASING AN ILLUSTRATED format as one could hope to find. Hugh Thomson’s delightfully detailed and skillful illustrations would be hard to surpass making this a true gem in its pretty binding. Thomson's pen-and-ink drawings are in much the same style as those he did for works by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.<br> As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 the house having been a focus for literary activity under Mary Sidney for much of the later 16th century has been suggested as a possibility. <br> The play follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden. In the forest they encounter a variety of memorable characters notably the melancholy traveller Jaques who speaks one of Shakespeare's most famous speeches "All the world's a stage" and provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1871SKU-045821Bradbury Evans & Co 1871. Leather Bound. Very Good. 1871 Bradbury Evans and Company London 13 leather bound minatures with gilt edges and raised band spines in red box with gilt decoration. Hasp on box is damaged. Each volume is approximately 340 pages Please email for photos. Bradbury Evans & Co hardcover
19104812<p>William Heinemann. London. 1910. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 4to. Illustrated throughout with forty fine full colour plates each mounted onto thicker art paper and with a printed tissue guard cover. A very good copy in a fine leather binding of half dark blue morocco spine with raised bands ruled lettered & decorated in gilt. Blue cloth on the boards. To edge gilt.</p> William Heinemann. London. 1910 hardcover
19446179<p><strong>Wartime edition. First edition of '<em>Romeo and Juliet'</em> in Pasternak's adaptation for children.</strong></p><p>At the end of the 1930s Pasternak became a translator: '.<em>.not by good fortune through misprision and if conditions were better I ought not to be translating at all'</em> Makaryk McHugh. Shakespeare and the Second World War. 2012.<br />Two extracts from '<em>Romeo and Juliet'</em> appeared in magazines in 1941 '30 Dney' No 4 and 'Internatsional'naya Literatura' No 5 but the beginning of WWII interrupted his work. In October 1941 Pasternak was evacuated to Chistopol where he finished the translation in February 1942. He wrote to his first wife Eugeniya Pasternak that he was totally absorbed in his work and had not written to anyone for more than two months — 'a conscious sacrifice for "<em>Romeo and Juliet"'</em>Sergeeva-Klyatis. Pasternak v Zhizni. 2015. It costs him 'more pain' than '<em>Hamlet'</em> the first Shakespeare play translated by Pasternak. In Chistopol he gave a public reading at Teacher's House on February 26. Tickets cost four and five rubles and '<em>the event was held as a benefit performance for soldiers of the Red Army'</em> Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography. Vol. 2. 2004. After the first extremely rare collotype edition 100 copies only the play was not published for a year. Pasternak believed that it was due to the deteriorating political situation between the Soviet Union and the UK: '.<em>.it had an effect on Shakespeare and after him on me so my shares falling.'</em> Lucenko. ".Pod Ruku s Morozovym". 2016.<br />The first official edition was published in <em>OGIZ</em> in February 1944 and the next edition was supposed to appear in <em>Detgiz</em> the state publishing house of children's literature. The author of the preface a literary critic Shakespearean <strong>Mikhail Morozov</strong> 1897–1952 called this translation 'a magnificent artistic creation' but he also considered that this translation is not for children. Pasternak corrected edited and shortened the translation especially for children.<br />Most likely an artist <strong>Elena Rodionova</strong> 1912–1996 prepared these illustrations of '<em>Romeo and Juliet'</em> before WWII. For the first time the illustration with the balcony scene appeared in the magazine '<em>30 Dney'</em> '30 Days' No 4 1941 p. 42.</p><p>Zakharenko 1955. # 113.</p> Detgiz paperback
1870013276London: Alfred Tarrant 1870. Book measures 28.5x22.cm. Title plus 12 chromolithography plates.Bound in original publishers ornate gilt red cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed minor wear on edges. A very nice clean bright cloth binding. Internally fox spotting to second free endpaper. Plates in very good clean condition. A very nice bright copy. . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by H. C. Hoskyns.Abrahall . Quarto. Alfred Tarrant Hardcover
155034London Printing and Publishing Co. c. 1857-1859. 4 vols. 4to 11 x 7½ ins. Rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in uniform half morocco on cloth sides spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting calf labels boards gilt ruled all edges gilt and new endpapers upper board of vol II lightly marked - otherwise a near Fine set. Pp. various illus with pictorial titles and b&w plates by Kenny Meadows frontispieces and titles rather toned; no inscriptions. London Printing and Publishing Co., c. 1857-1859 unknown
19446199<p><strong>First edition of '<em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>' translated by Pasternak</strong>. This is the only separate edition of his translation. Printed during wartime approved for printing on June 3 1944.</p><p>This is the third Shakespeare play translated by <strong>Boris Pasternak</strong> 1890-1960 commissioned by the Moscow Art Theatre. He began work on it immediately after completing the translation of '<em>Romeo and Juliet</em>'. By the end of June 1943 the translation was ready for printing. Soviet literary critic Mikhail Morozov described this translation as '<em>the most successful</em>' emphasizing that it transcended mere translation to become a poetic dialogue between two poets. Pasternak himself likened Cleopatra to '<em>the Nastasya Filippovna of antiquity</em>' drawing parallels with heroines such as Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. <br />Illustrations were created by <strong>Mikhail Pikov</strong> 1903-1973 a student of VKhUTEMAS under Vladimir Favorsky known for his mastery of woodcut techniques.</p><p>Zakharenko 1995. # 114.</p> OGIZ, Goslitizdat paperback
189510452<p>G Napier & Co Birmingham and Tylston & Edwards Marsden London. Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. 1895. Printed by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. Large 8vo. 8.8 x 7.2 inches. iv154ppi Colophon. Decorative wood-cut Initial letters and borders on the text pages. Neat two line inscription on the title page. Early leather binding of half dark blue morocco. Spine which has been re-laid ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Double gilt ruled lines on the morocco edges bordering blue cloth panels on the boards. Marbled endpapers with a strip of plain paper to both inner hinges where the book has been professionally re-cased. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing to the edges of the binding. A beautifully produced edition in the arts and crafts style of the period in a skilfully repaired but very good quality and still attractive early leather binding.</p> G Napier & Co, Birmingham, and Tylston & Edwards Marsden, London. Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handi hardcover
190431872Stratford-On-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press 1904. 10 volumes. First Edition printed by the Shakespeare Head Press. Limited and Numbered this being copy number 525. Illustrated with the Droeshout and Chandos portraits as frontispieces as well as the additional gravure frontispieces of known portraits of Shakespeare to every volume. 4to handsomely bound in three-quarter emerald-green morocco over turquoise cloth covered boards the spines with raised bands gilt stopped the compartments with panels in gilt featuring double fillet border lines corner tools and central ornamental tooling all in gilt two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt marbled endleaves top edge gilt. The text-blocks and illustrations are all in good order clean and fresh and very handsome the bindings have wear to the edges and tips one board detached but easily repaired an honest set internally very pleasing one portrait with a small water stain at a corner of the blank portion of the leaf. FIRST AND BEST EDITION PRODUCED BY THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON. The Shakespeare Head Press was the dream child of A. H. Bullen who wished to produce beautiful editions of Shakespeare’s works-- set printed and bound in the famed author’s home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon. The press expanded significantly over the years and printed many wonderful editions by a plethora of writers.<br> The books were printed for A.H. Bullen and F. Sidgwick at the press in the house of Julius Shaw the poet's friend and one of the witnesses to his will. The text with essays by H.C. Beeching Robert Bridges Henry Davey E.K. Chambers J.J. Jusserand and M.H. Spielmann. The type was composed under the supervision of T.E. Summerton. The whole was printed by F.S. Cooper. The work was begun in July 1904 and finished in January 1907.<br> Colin Franklin writing in THE PRIVATE PRESSES says that in the years after the death of A. H. Bullen the Press's founder the Shakespeare Head Press "became the most mature and sophisticated of the private presses producing some works in the grand manner which are a great pleasure to read and examine now" p. 147. This set indeed is "in the grand manner" beautifully printed on fine paper and very handsomely bound and presented.<br> This is a pleasing set internally showing the full effect of the beautiful Shakespeare Head Press printing of Shakespeare. The bindings have seen much better days but are still reasonably presentable. The Shakespeare Head Press hardcover
196834798New York: W. W. Norton 1968. The First Issuance of the famous Norton Facsimile this copy with the original prospectus. photographically rendered facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare 1623. Folio publisher's full red morocco over red cloth covered boards in protective slipcase the spine with raised bands gilt ruled the compartments lettered and decorated in gilt ribbon marker red decorated endpapers. xxxvii 928 pp. A pristine copy as mint. AN IMPORTANT PRINTING AND PUBLISHING EVENT. Because of the peculiarities regarding the printing of the First Folio of the eighty or so copies at the Folger Library no two copies are identical. Professor Hinman was able to collate the Folger copies and discover all the variant readings and corrections made during the print run and for this facsimile he provides the finally corrected state of every page. As the advertisement states this is "a facsimile not of 'a' Folio but 'the' Folio." Each page is photographically reproduced without retouching or opaquing in the original size.<br> Professor Hinman has provided a valuable introduction as well as a new standardized line-numbering which replaces the standard but quite faulty act-scene-line numbers of the old Globe edition of 1864. This edition also reproduces two original proof sheets with proofreader's marks. W. W. Norton hardcover
178511026<p>John Bell. London. 1785. Two works in one volume. Early and first edition. 8vo. 5.8 x 3.6 inches. First work; 90pp. second work: 99pp. Some brown offsetting from the glue used in the binding to the first and last couple of leaves otherwise generally very good copies in an attractive late 18th century leather binding of half dark brown calf. Spine with decorative gilt bands. A new red leather title label lettered in gilt has been added to replace the missing original. Marbled paper on the boards. Some rubbing to the edges and the top hinge cracked but holding firm. Overall a pretty little volume. -- Early printing of Johnson & Steeven's Midsummer Nights Dream and First edition of their Annotations.</p> John Bell. London. 1785 hardcover
40209LONDON FOLIO SOCIETY 2009. LIMITED EDITION OF 1980 THIS BEING NUMBER 644. LARGE QUARTO. HALF NIGERIAN GOATSKIN LEATHER MARBLED PAPER BY ANN MUIR PRINTED BY HAND ON ZERKALL MOULD-MADE PAPER BOUND BY HAND. COMPLETE WITH A SEPARATE BOOK 'THE COMPLETE SONNETS AND POEMS' EDITED BY COLIN BURROW 750 PAGES AND A SOLANDER CASE. A VERY FINE COPY IN A FINE SLIPCASE WITH A BUMP TO ONE CORNER. LONDON, FOLIO SOCIETY, 2009 hardcover
196711023<p>Heinemann. London. 1967. Reprint. This edition originally published in 1963. 8vo. 7.2 x 4.9 inches. vi 194pp. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red calf binding. Spine with raised bands each decorated with gilt wavy lines. Compartments double ruled and decorated in gilt. Blue morocco label gilt. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative floral gilt tooling. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall a lovely highly attractive volume.</p> Heinemann. London. 1967 hardcover
1783120028London: Printed for G. Kearsley At 46 in Fleet Street. Good with no dust jacket. 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes an Account of the Life of William Shakespeare. Full leather 'tree calf 7 unraised decorated gilt bands maroon morocco title label with gilt lettering and ruling. A gilt decoration in each compartment. The spine only seems to have been 'varnished' but it shines and looks good. Outer dentelles decorated but some wear here and there to the covers/edges but mainly to the corners. The outer front hinge is split but holding. The rear hinge has two small splits but is o/w sound. An attractive volume overall. Internally a former owners name in old ink on the top of the front free endpaper. A VERY clean copy inside. xxiii 1 36 49-235 248-275 text continuous despite the gaps in pagination. Engraved title page showing circular vignette portrait of Shakespeare with a profile of Garrick on his left. " 'Beauties' were popular books that doubled as entertainment and instruction. With the legal death of perpetual copyright the literary marketplace opened-up with such compilations allowing the work of venerated authors to be used in many ways. Though his book selling career was tumultuous George Kearsley 1739-1790 did see success as a 'Beauties' publisher with editions of 'The Beauties of Johnson' 1781 appearing for the next 70 years much to Johnson's disgruntlement - At the very end of this book is a half page advert for other 'Beauties' volumes. First edition of this selection a scarce 'Beauties' ESTC recording just 3 copies - BL Cambridge Folger. A different selection from that compiled by William Dodd indeed Kearsley was a rival to Dodd. This version preceded by a 'Life' as noted above. 'Price Half a Crown Sewed' at foot of title-page. Under the title on the Title page = "He was a man take him for all in all; We shall not look upon his like again." See Images; Small 8vo 7" - 8" tall . Printed for G. Kearsley At 46, in Fleet Street, hardcover
193527293London: Oxford University Press 1935. Early printing of the edition. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece of Shakespeare. 8vo beautifully bound in full dark-green crushed morocco the spine with raised bands richly gilt separating compartments with fully gilt panels incorporated broad central gilt tools and elaborate borders one compartment lettered in gilt the covers fully gilt with elaborately tooled borders enclosing very finely and broadly tooled inner designs in gilt all edges gilt end-leaves of fine marbled paper. 1352 pp. including a very extensive glossary. A very fine copy especially well preserved very handsome and a beautifully bound book. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE VENERABLE BARD. Besides of full complement of the plays the Sonnets and the longer poems are all included. There is a fine glossary an index of first lines and an index of characters. Oxford University Press hardcover
10121Heinemann. London. 1929. REPRINT RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. 9.7 x 7.2 inches. Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates each with a printed tissue paper guard. Thirty black and white illustrations some full page throughout the text. A lovely clean copy. Small crease to the bottom corner of the frontis plate otherwise a very good copy Finely bound for Henry Sotheran of London in recent full dark brown Levant Morocco. Spine with raised bands the compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt border roll on the inside of the boards. All edges gilt. Original blue cloth spine and both boards bound in at the back. A fine copy of this beautiful book. Rackham at his very best. Heinemann. London. 1929 hardcover
177110263Dublin: Thomas Ewing 1771. Hardcover. Good. Six volumes in twelve. Small 8vo. Full worn leather with red title pieces. Edges stained green. Four volumes are marked with what appears to be an ink spillage. Bookplate in each volume and gift inscription in volume 1. In addition to being based on Johnson's text this edition includes his preface together with the prefaces and notes of earlier Shakespeare editors namely Rowe Pope Theobald Hanmer and Warburton. Also included are Capell's Introduction a table of the quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays Rowe's account of the life of Shakespeare Shakespeare's Will and "Poems Upon the Author". "Select notes from many other critics" are given on each play. Variations between the texts of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Capell are also given. Volume 1 has a frontispiece of Shakespeare and there is a miniature engraving of Shakespeare by Picot at page 3. An interesting and worthwhile 18th century edition. Photographs available on request. <br/> <br/> Thomas Ewing hardcover
18889014<p>Ernest Nister. London. Printed in Nuremberg. ND. 1888. FIRST AND ONLY PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. Folio. 15 x 11.7 inches. Illustrated with six stunning full colour chromolithographic plates and twenty-seven sepia vignettes throughout the text. The artist is Julius Höppner a master of fairy and fantasy illustration. Original white cloth with elaborate full gilt decoration to spine and front board which also has a sunken panel with a bevelled gilt tooled edge where a full colour illustration is placed. Silk patterned paper endpapers. All edges gilt. Binding a bit loose. The board edges are rubbed and marked & there is some minor foxing to most pages but overall this is a near to very good copy of a truly beautiful book.</p> Ernest Nister. London. Printed in Nuremberg. ND. 1888 hardcover
1918040312Paris: L'Édition D'Art 1918. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Edmond Dulac. Finely rebound in a half leather art deco binding of gilt ruled green morocco with geometrical inlays on the spine of red and blue morocco in a marbled slipcase edged in leather. Undated ca. 1918 with 40 tipped in plates by Dulac one loose but present. Pages are very slightly browned otherwise unmarked. Lightly rubbed on the spine hinges and corners; slipcase worn at edges. Bookplate to a front endpaper. First Illustrated Edition or first by this illustrator and in this format. Size: Quarto 4to. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Edmond Dulac. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 040312. L'Édition D'Art hardcover
191130764London: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited 1911. 3 volumes. First of the edition and first with the illustrations by Sullivan. Beautifully illustrated with 39 gravures after original illustrations by E.J. Sullivan. Thick 8vo very handsomely bound in full red morocco and signed by Bayntun Riviere & Son with edges gilt the covers bordered with gilt fillet lines spines with raised bands with gilt rules at the borders separating the compartments which are decorated with center tools in gilt picturing symbols of the stage two compartments with gilt lettering feathered marbled endpapers all edges gilt. 14 848; 8 887; 8 982 pp. A marvelous set all gilt still handsome and bright the bindings as pristine and without wear. A VERY FINE AND HANDSOME SET. This is a well-glossed and intelligently edited set of Shakespeare’s plays complete with a biographical section about Shakespeare. This edition also contains a plethora of intricate and delightful illustrations by E.J. Sullivan. A truly beautiful set. J.M. Dent and Sons, Limited hardcover
190810595<p>Heinemann. London. 1908. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 1st printing. 4to. 10.1 x 7.7 inches. Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates each with a printed tissue paper guard and 30 fine line drawings by Rackham throughout the text some full page. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands the compartments ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label gilt. Some light foxing throughout but still a very good copy of this beautiful book in an attractive leather binding. Rackham at his very best.</p> Heinemann. London. 1908 hardcover
26291THE SWALLOW PRESS 1975. FOLIO LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 115. FULLY BOUND IN NIGER LEATHER BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE PUBLISHED BY THE SWALLOW PRESS DESIGNED BY EDWARD BURRETT WITH DRAWINGS BY CLARKE HUTTON WITH A PREFACE BY ROBERT GRAVES. SIGNED BY ROBERT GRAVES EDWARD BURRETT AND CLARKE HUTTON. A FINE EXAMPLE OF A SCARCE BOOK. COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL SLIPCASE WORN. THE SWALLOW PRESS, 1975 hardcover