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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
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
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
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
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
191334878London: J.M. Dent 1913-1917. 40 volumes bound into 20. A very handsomely bound and early set of the Temple gift edition of "pocket" volumes of Shakepeare's plays and poems. Each play the sonnets and poems with frontispiece engraving very nicely done with captioned tissue-guards and each with its own unique handsomely decorated title-page printed in black and red all are in a style reminiscent of the Kelmscott Press featuring central vignettes or portraits within elaborate borders headlines throughout printed in red and with black and yellow emblems of the edition on each pastedown. 12mo beautifully bound by Bumpus of Oxford England in full light-brown polished calf the spines lettered in gilt between raised bands the covers tooled in blind at the borders and turnovers silk ribbon markers to each volume all edges gilt. A very pleasing and beautifully preserved set of this highly stylized library collection the text printed on fine paper is clean and fresh the bindings are tight and strong and without any wear to speak of a very fine set. A VERY APPEALING SET OF THESE LITTLE GEMS Dent's very popular TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE provides a wonderful way to read the great Bard's works. Each of the thirty-nine plays is presented in a attractive manner the headlines in bright red the text in black all easily used and read; a final volume provides us with the poems and sonnets. The plays and poems all in handsome bindings executed by Bumpus. <br> The text of the plays and poems are from the Cambridge Shakespeare and each play with a fine preface glossary and notes by Israel Gollancz British philologist and academic who was a scholar of early English literature and of William Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London from 1903 to 1930. He was a founder member and the first Secretary 1902–1930 of the British Academy and of the committee for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre which eventually became the Royal National Theatre in London and he was the Director of the Early English Text Society.<br> He edited the "Temple" Shakespeare a uniform edition of the complete works in pocket-size volumes which was the most popular Shakespeare edition of its day. In 1916 as Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee he also edited A Book of Homage to Shakespeare an anthology of responses to Shakespeare from scholars thinkers and other prominent figures from around the world. J.M. Dent hardcover
1926046869London: William Heinemann and Doubleday 1926. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Vellum. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Rackham Arthur. Vellum backed boards. Very slight discoloration to boards - just about fine in a very slightly age toned jacket Number 314 of 520 1-260 for the U.K. 261-520 for the U.S. 21 color plates one of which did not appear in the trade edition. Latimer 61 Size: Quarto 4to. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Top edge gilt in good condition. Illustrator: Rackham Arthur. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Theatre & Plays; Signed by Illustrator. Inventory No: 046869. William Heinemann and Doubleday hardcover
183125030London: William Pickering 1831. The fine and very scarce Pickering edition in one volume. This copy WITH FINE PROVENANCE having come from the library of Austin Dobsin with his decorative plate and identifying ownership label. Thick 8vo in a beautiful English binding of three-quarter crimson morocco over feather marbled boards lined in gilt at the turnovers the spine with raised bands dividing the compartments which are decorated with gilt framed panels and lettered in gilt in two of the compartments t.e.g. others untrimmed. 4 763 pp. A very fine and bright copy beautifully preserved the morocco binding in excellent condition and the text-block too in very fine condition. A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND EARLY PRINTING OF THE MASTER’S WORKS THIS COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE HAVING BEEN OWNED BY AUSTIN DOBSIN. The fine Pickering production of Shakespeare’s plays is still one of the most famous of the early 19th century printings and this copy is especially attractive in fine binding and ownership history. <br> ‘Austin Dobson was distinguished as both poet and biographer. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse and some of his earliest work was his best. It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope gaveDobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems including "Tu Quoque" "A Gentleman of the Old School" "A Dialogue from Plato" and "Une Marquise." Many of his poems in their original form were illustrated—some indeed were written to support illustrations.<br> By the autumn of 1873 Dobson had produced enough verse for a volume and published Vignettes in Rhyme which quickly went through three editions. During the period of their appearance in the magazine the poems had received unusual attention George Eliot among others encouraging the anonymous author. The little book immediately introduced him to a larger public. The period was an interesting one for a first appearance since the air was full of metrical experiment. Swinburne's bold excursions into classical metre had broken new ground; it was hopeless to attempt to compete and the poets of the day were looking for fresh forms and variations. Early in 1876 a small body of English poets discovered the French forms of Théodore de Banville Clement Marot and François Villon and determined to introduce them into English verse.<br> Austin Dobson who had already made successful use of the triolet was at the head of this movement and in May 1876 he published in The Prodigals the first original ballade written in English. This he followed by English versions of the rondel rondeau and villanelle. An article in the Cornhill Magazine by Edmund Gosse "A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse" appearing in July 1877 simultaneously with Dobson's second volume Proverbs in Porcelain drew the general eye to the possibilities and achievements of the movement. The experiment was deemed a success. In 1883 Dobson published Old-World Idylls which contained some of his most characteristic work. By this time his taste was gradually settling on the period with which it has since become almost exclusively associated; and the spirit of the 18th century was revived in "The Ballad of Beau Brocade" and in "The Story of Rosina" as nowhere else in modern English poetry. In "Beau Brocade" the pictorial quality of his work is at its very best. He has been compared with Randolph Caldecott with which it has much in common; but Dobson's humour was not so "rollicking" and his portraiture not so broad as that of the illustrator of John Gilpin. His appeal was more intellectual.<br> After 1885 Dobson was engaged mainly in critical and biographical prose by which he added considerably to the general knowledge of his favourite 18th century. His biographies of Henry Fielding 1883 Thomas Bewick 1884 Richard Steele 1886 Oliver Goldsmith 1888 Horace Walpole 1890 and William Hogarth 1879-1891-1897-1902-1907 are studies marked alike by assiduous research sympathetic presentation and sound criticism. In Four Frenchwomen 1890 in the three series of Eighteenth-Century Vignettes 1892-1894-1896 and in The Paladin of Philanthropy 1899 which contain unquestionably his most delicate prose work the accurate detail of each study is relieved by a charm of expression which could only be attained by a poet. In 1901 he collected his hitherto unpublished poems in a volume entitled Carmina Votiva.’ William Pickering hardcover
185815651London: George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street 1858. 3 volumes. First edition edited by Howard Staunton and illustrated by John Gilbert. Engraved frontispiece of the Bard and a great profusion of engraved illustrations throughout both within the text and as full page plates. 8vo original midnight-blue three-quarter morocco edged in gold over pebbled cloth boards spines richly gilt separated into compartments with gilt lettering gilt ruled raised bands and elaborately decorated gilt panel designs within the compartments marbled endpapers a.e.g. lxviii 746; 768; 816 pp. A fine set all gilt and all bindings still very handsome and bright with only expected minor foxing to the prelims. A HANDSOME SET INDEED. Staunton has painstakingly researched Shakespeare’s original language and manuscripts when possible in an attempt to wrap himself around the Bard’s mind “to explain his obscurities to disentangle his intricacies and to illustrate his allusions†preface. The result is a well-glossed and intelligently edited set of Shakespeare’s plays complete with an extensive biographical section about Shakespeare miscellaneous documents relating to his estate and a reprint of his famous will in which he bequeaths to his wife his “second best bed with the furniture.†This edition also contains a plethora of intricate and delightful illustrations by John Gilbert. A truly beautiful set. George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
