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182127348London: F.C. and J. Rivington; et al 1821. 21 volumes. The ‘Boswell’s Malone’ Edition first thus. With engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare in Volume I and II and III engraved illustration of the Globe and folding leaves in Vol. III with steel-engraved plate in Vol. VIII a large folding engraved plate in Vol. XVI and printed music in Vol. XVII. 8vo handsomely bound in contemporary full smooth tan calf boards gilt ruled gilt decorated board edges spines attractively gilt tooled in panels between raised gilt tooled bands lettering labels in two panels of dark green and buff morocco smaller morocco volume labels at the tails all labels lettered in gilt a.e.g. A very handsome and stately set in proper bindings internally very fresh bindings with some minor age evidence some cracking to hinges on some volumes one cover detached and easily repairedstill a pleasing and handsome set. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY PRINTING OF THE WORKS. This variorum edition not only forms a fine summery of the cumulative scholarship on Shakespeare during the 18th century but has time and again been called the foundation of modern Shakespearean scholarship. James Boswell the son of Johnson’s biographer had a hard task in ordering Malone’s papers - “I may add†he states in his 50 page introduction “that it is not everyone who could have deciphered his notes.†Along with all of Malone’s material this set contains three full volumes of scholarly works including the prefaces of all of the major editions of the previous century more then one life of Shakespeare Boswell’s life of Malone histories of the stage Shakespeare’s will Coat of Arms and other relative documents to the Bards life and extensive notes on and from the modern editions. In addition to all of this material is the extensive and very useful ‘Glossarial Index’ and an Addenda.<br> No less then 35 publishers joined forces to produce these volumes and it is alone among the variorum editions to include a volume of Poems. Its influence was such that many years later the Sette of Odd Volumes a renowned bibliophile dining club limited its membership to 21 stating this in its list of rules; “The Sette of Odd Volumes to consist of twenty one this being the number of volumes of the variorum Shakespeare of 1821â€. F.C. and J. Rivington; et al hardcover
1943213Lausanne, André Gonin, (1943). Un volume in-4 (37.4 x 27.6) en feuilles sous emboîtage.
182132498London: F.C. and J. Rivington; et al 1821. 21 volumes. The First Edition of ‘Boswell’s Malone’ Edition a highly important printing of the bard's works. This copy with very interesting and established provenance. The set was owned by Edward Weeks member of an old Boston and New England family and long-time editor of The Atlantic where he wrote a column for many years entitled "The Perpatetic Reviewer." Previous to Mr. Weeks the set was owned by the aviator Louis Bleriot the first person to fly across the English Channel. His signature is in one of the volumes. With engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare in Volume I II and III engraved illustration of the Globe and folding leaves in Vol. III with steel-engraved plate in Vol. VIII a large folding engraved plate in Vol. XVI and printed music in Vol. XVII. 8vo handsomely bound in contemporary full smooth tan polished calf the covers gilt decorated at the borders with a roll-tooled chain pattern gilt decorated board edges the spines attractively gilt decorated in elaborate panels within the compartments raised bands gilt ruled contrasting lettering labels in red and green in three compartments. A very handsome and stately set in proper bindings internally very fresh bindings with some minor age evidence some restoration to some hinges on some volumes. A handsome and pleasing set. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY PRINTING OF THE WORKS. This variorum edition not only forms a fine summery of the cumulative scholarship on Shakespeare during the 18th century but has time and again been called the foundation of modern Shakespearean scholarship. James Boswell the son of Johnson’s biographer had a hard task in ordering Malone’s papers - “I may add†he states in his 50 page introduction “that it is not everyone who could have deciphered his notes.†Along with all of Malone’s material this set contains three full volumes of scholarly works including the prefaces of all of the major editions of the previous century more then one life of Shakespeare Boswell’s life of Malone histories of the stage Shakespeare’s will Coat of Arms and other relative documents to the Bards life and extensive notes on and from the modern editions. In addition to all of this material is the extensive and very useful ‘Glossarial Index’ and an Addenda.<br> No less then 35 publishers joined forces to produce these volumes and it is alone among the variorum editions to include a volume of Poems. Its influence was such that many years later the Sette of Odd Volumes a renowned bibliophile dining club limited its membership to 21 stating this in its list of rules; “The Sette of Odd Volumes to consist of twenty one this being the number of volumes of the variorum Shakespeare of 1821â€. F.C. and J. Rivington; et al hardcover
179320837London: Printed for and Under the Direction of John Bell 1793. 20 volumes. The important Bell’s Shakespeare with the Prefaces by Pope Theobald Hanmer Warburton and Johnson and with both Rowe’s and Malone’s Life of Shakespeare and with many other important essays notes and emendations. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare and of the Prince of Wales of Pope Warburton Hanmer and Johnson as well as others of Shakespeare’s house and with a profusion of finely engraved plates throughout the volumes 12mo beautifully bound in full red Regency straight-grain morocco with handsome gilt ruling to the borders of the upper and lower covers the spine with compartments separated by gilt bands gilt tooled Regency decorative motifs and lettering in gilt within the compartments gilt tooled edges and gilt rolled turnovers marbled end-leaves all edges gilt. An excellent and important set very handsome beautifully preserved fresh and clean. AN IMPORTANT PRESSING OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS AND OF THE SCHOLARLY WRITINGS AND DISCUSSIONS UP TO THE CURRENT TIME. The plays are from Steevens' and Johnson's Scholarly Edition of Shakespeare 1773. This edition prints a two volume Prolegomena which consists of prefaces written for Shakespeare's plays over many years. A PROLEGOMENA TO THE DRAMATICK WRITINGS OF WILL. SHAKSPER includes along with all the most important prefaces both Rowe’s and Malone’s ‘Lives of Shakespeare’ the 1623 preface of Heming and Condell as well as Shakespeare's Will Commendatory Verses and an attempt to determine the original order of the plays. With 97 portraits vignettes and character plates including a foldout of signatures on Shakespeare's Will in Vol. II "an example of fans" in the Merry Wives' Annotations a foldout of the Morris Dancers in Henry IV part 1's Annotations and an extra vignette in Titus Andronicus. <br> This the "Literary" Shakespeare was published serially beginning in 1785 and collected in 20 vols. What distinguishes this edition from the others by Bell is the elaborateness of the presentation. This was the culmination of a 15 year effort to publish an edition of the Bard's works which had a high cultural value due to its edition annotation and beauty of its typography and illustration. Indeed this edition proved a social triumph for Bell with his assembled 1800 subscribers including the Royal Family ex-cept for the Sovereign along with the Queen of France monsieur the Kings brother and a collection of 70 nobles.<br> The edition was printed on smooth wove paper gilt edges and handsomely bound in calf probably in Bell's own bindery. In this edition Bell first replaced the long s � with the modern small rounded s an innovation which quickly caught on. There are many more portraits in this edition than in the earlier "acting" editions of Shakespeare. In the Prolegomena alone there are 8 portraits as well as several engravings of places and things related to Shakespeare. Throughout the rest of the collection each play has between 2 and 4 character portraits featuring prominent actors in the roles. In contrast to the engravings of the earlier edition these portraits have oval borders and lush backgrounds. The actors themselves are rendered in a much softer more romantic style. <br> The artists Bell commissioned were all under the age of 25 and relatively unknown. Most notable among them was the young Johan Heinrich Ramberg who had come to England from Hanover under the patronage of George III. It is because of these young artists that these portraits are so different from those in the "acting" edition. Ramberg brought with him a European aesthetic and all the artists brought the burgeoning romantic artistic trends to the drawing boards. Printed for and Under the Direction of John Bell hardcover
163229673London: by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot 1632. From the Second Folio of Shakespeare. A sheet rescued from a single folio still bearing a copy of its original title page naming Robert Allot who was owner of the rights to sixteen plays. Bi-Folium a complete bifolium 4 pp. 29 30 31 32. A large and very well preserved copy of this very rare and unusual survival original sewing holes and any other tiny imperfections expertly perfected according to the exacting standards established by the American Institute of Conservation. A RARE OFFERING FROM THE SECOND FOLIO. Made at Thomas Cotes' print shop located at the Signe of the Blacke Beare in Pads Church-yard. this is an example that few have ever seen but for the original 17th century purchasers and binders of Cotes' loose sheets and in later centuries folio conservators or binders working on the rare individual sheet that only remained in sheet form until being rebound back into its folio for use as numbered pages. It also originates from one of the first two folio editions of 1623 and 1632 of which only 1500 or so total combined copies were printed. With the hindsight of 400 years sheets were something that no one thought to preserve in 1632 These folio sheets were printed specifically for binding into complete copies of the Second Folio. Ironically extra sheets would probably have been considered "printer's waste" and discarded or perhaps given away as "mementos". [by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot] unknown
163229674London: by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot 1632. From the Second Folio of Shakespeare. A sheet rescued from a single folio still bearing a copy of its original title page naming Robert Allot who was owner of the rights to sixteen plays. Bi-Folium a complete bifolium with two folio leaves still attached and unseparated. 4 pp. 75 76 81 82. A large and very well preserved copy of this very rare and unusual survival original sewing holes and any other tiny imperfections expertly perfected according to the exacting standards established by the American Institute of Conservation. A RARE OFFERING FROM THE SECOND FOLIO. Made at Thomas Cotes' print shop located at the Signe of the Blacke Beare in Pads Church-yard. this is an example that few have ever seen but for the original 17th century purchasers and binders of Cotes' loose sheets and in later centuries folio conservators or binders working on the rare individual sheet that only remained in sheet form until being rebound back into its folio for use as numbered pages. It also originates from one of the first two folio editions of 1623 and 1632 of which only 1500 or so total combined copies were printed. With the hindsight of 400 years sheets were something that no one thought to preserve in 1632 These folio sheets were printed specifically for binding into complete copies of the Second Folio. Ironically extra sheets would probably have been considered "printer's waste" and discarded or perhaps given away as "mementos". [by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot] unknown
163229671London: by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot 1632. From the Second Folio of Shakespeare. A sheet rescued from a single folio still bearing a copy of its original title page naming Robert Allot who was owner of the rights to sixteen plays. The text on this bifolium includes one of the great lines of Shakespeare one which we all love to quote see the provided close-up image to find it. Bi-Folium a complete bifolium with two folio leaves still attached and unseparated. 4 pp. 273 274 275 276. A large and very well preserved copy of this very rare and unusual survival original sewing holes and any other tiny imperfections expertly perfected according to the exacting standards established by the American Institute of Conservation. A RARE OFFERING FROM THE SECOND FOLIO. A RARE OFFERING FROM THE SECOND FOLIO. Made at Thomas Cotes' print shop located at the Signe of the Blacke Beare in Pads Church-yard. this is an example that few have ever seen but for the original 17th century purchasers and binders of Cotes' loose sheets and in later centuries folio conservators or binders working on the rare individual sheet that only remained in sheet form until being rebound back into its folio for use as numbered pages. It also originates from one of the first two folio editions of 1623 and 1632 of which only 1500 or so total combined copies were printed. With the hindsight of 400 years sheets were something that no one thought to preserve in 1632 These folio sheets were printed specifically for binding into complete copies of the Second Folio. Ironically extra sheets would probably have been considered "printer's waste" and discarded or perhaps given away as "mementos". [by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot] unknown
1640BBO36<p><b>SHAKESPEARE</b> William:</p><p><i><b>POEMS</b></i>: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. </p><p>London: Printed by Tho. Cotes and are to be sold by John Benson dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard 1640.</p><p>8vo engraved Portrait Frontispiece by William Marshall after Droeshout with verses below. Two letterpress title pages both with woodcut printer's device the second undated title-page extended and remargined at bottom tiny abrasion at top of frontispiece catchword 3 carelessly printed and punched through final leaf M4 extended; russet morocco by Bedford covers gilt paneled marbled endpapers spine and edges gilt.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>FIRST COLLECTED EDITION</b>. This edition by Benson brings together all but eight of the sonnets: A Lover s Complaint The Passionate Pilgrim mostly not by Shakespeare The Phoenix and the Turtle attributed to Shakespeare and elegies and other poems honoring Shakespeare by Jonson Milton Digges Herrick Strode Carew and others. Benson famously reorganized the sonnets probably out of concern that an old-fashioned sonnet sequence would not appeal to the generation of the Cavalier Poets. Many are run together to form poems of twenty-eight lines or more and all are given titles. Benson also made some effort to disguise the homoerotic content found in some sonnets perhaps most strikingly in his changes to Sonnet 101 O truant Muse what shall be thy amends which he runs together with Sonnet 100 under the title An invocation of his Muse while he also switches the gender of the pronouns to make the poet s lover female. </p><p>References: STC 22344; ESTC S106377; Bartlett 27; Grolier/Langland to Wither 84; Hayward 30; Pfozheimer 880 </p><p>Provenance: Alfred Henry Huth Morocco label Christie s New York 18 November 1977 lot 115 undesignated consignor Sotheby's London 26 April 1982 lot 439 Property of a Gentleman Robert S. Pirie purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch Sotheby's New York 3 December 2015 lot 729 Collection of Robert S Pirie .</p> Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by John Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard hardcover books
