Poetry & Drama
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William Shakespeare. The Complete Works. A new edition, edited with an introduction and glossary by Peter Alexander, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow.
London and Glasgow: Collins, 1954. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxxii; 1376. Recently rebound in red morocco, edges gilt ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Machine-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior bright and clean. Some faint scuffing to boards..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers & Son [etc.], 1869. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] liv; 725 [3]; pp.[8] 730 [2]; pp.[8] 700 [2]; pp.[8] 751 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard to volume I. Contemporary tan full polished calf by BICKERS..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1894. [Drama] FIRST THUS. A near-complete set of 40 volumes, lacking only 'Songs'. Sexto-Decimo in half-sheets (14 x 11 x 55cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Attractively printed on good paper in contrasting red and black ink. Publisher's stippled maroon..... More
The Works of Shakespeare. The Larger Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1910-1921. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND SET, later impressions thus. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 48cm). With a colour portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and occasional black and white plates and in-text wood engravings throughout by various artists. In contemporary..... More
Hamlet. The Letterpress Shakespeare.
London: The Folio Society, 2007. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Folio (37 x 27cm), pp.[2] 129 [5]. Number 1667 of 3750 copies thus, set 'monotype' Baskerville, printed by Hand and Eye Letterpress, London, on Zerkall mould-made paper. Hand-bound in red half morocco by G. Lachenmailer, Reutlingen, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
Songs and Sonnets.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. [Poetry] FINE LEATHER BINDING, reprint. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[4] 253 [3]. Contemporary green half morocco, borders gilt-ruled, green cloth over sides. Gilt titles, gilt floral tooling, and two raised bands to spine. Decorative endpapers, top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded title-page with vignette illustration. Bound by..... More
The Complete Works [includes the Poems and Sonnets].
Oxford: University Press (Humphrey Milford), 1913. [English literature] The 'Oxford Shakespeare'. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.1350; [2], Notes. Frontispiece portrait. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue calf with five raised bands, extra gilt to spine, red title label, gilt crest to upper, marbled edges and endpapers. Colston's Girls' School, Bristol prize..... More
The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: William Mackenzie, no date [1873-75]. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in three volumes. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp.[6] 396 [2]; pp.[6] 406 [2]; pp.[6] 476 [2]. With a full-page engraved plate for each play, nine very fine coloured plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and very..... More
The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. [Shakespeare] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Twelve volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 44cm). With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and an engraved headpiece for each play by various artists. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare.
London: Archibald Constable, n.d [c.1910]. FINELY BOUND EDITION. 12 volumes. Crown octavo (19 x 14 x 40cm). Half scarlet calf by The Times Bindery, with green morocco title labels, gilt to spine, matching buckram sides, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents a little thumbed, bindings with the odd mark or..... More
English Lyrics.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883. [Poetry] FIRST THUS, interesting provenance. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xix [1] 296 [4]. With an original poem lovingly INSCRIBED to a front blank by Scottish writer S.R. Crockett to his future wife Ruth Mary Milner, dated 1883. Contemporary white paper boards, red titles..... More
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