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See below our stock of William Shakespeare First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1880]. [Children's Illustrated] GILBERT ILLUSTRATIONS. Octavo (17 X 11cm), pp.[2] viii; 371; [3]. With eight wood engraved illustrations by Gilbert, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges and endpapers marbled..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. [Plays of Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND CENSORED PLAYS. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[4] x; 910 [2]. Very small print set in two columns. With an engraved head piece for each play. Contemporary black full morocco with raised bands, gilt title to spine, and heavy..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1850. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND, a later printing thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] lxxx; 960 [2]. Small print in two columns. An edition first published in 1838, with the original engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title page bound into this later printing. Contemporary brown morocco, with..... More
London: Cassell & Company, no date [circa 1880s]. [Drama] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Three volumes. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.[12] 712 [2]; pp.[10] 596 [2]; pp.[2] xlii [10] 775 [3]. With numerous in-text and full page engravings by Selous, a facsimile and transcript of Shakespeare's Will, and..... More
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Shakespeare's plays] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 1315; [1]. Oxford binding of quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, gilt decoration and titles to spine, top-edge gilt, housed in the original card slipcase. Frontispiece from a drawing by Sir George Scharf. Ownership..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1825. Eight volumes. Octavo. Bound in contemporary brown calf, with gilt ruling and blind tooling to boards, rebacked to style, with original black labels, raised bands and gilt decoration; all edges marbled, original grey endpapers with bookplate. Bindings show well, boards show some rubbing, with occasional..... More
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
London: J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited, no date [1892-1894]. [Plays] ILLUSTRATED AND FINELY BOUND. Four volumes bound as two, large octavo (28 x 21 x 9cm). Contemporary dark green half calf over green cloth boards, gilt titles to a red morocco label to spine, blue/green endpapers, edges speckled red. Text..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With 40 tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's light brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge tinted brown. Contents clean, some spotting to endpapers, neat contemporary inscription to flyleaf, binding a...... More
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Bound in recent mid-brown half morocco with gilt-lettered title labels and tooling to spine over publisher's original gilt-pictorial boards. Contents clean, exterior as new. A...... More
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Large Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.134; [1], blank; [1], imprint. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Handsomely bound in blue full oasis morocco, with twin red labels to spine, gilt decoration, marbled endpapers..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Bound in recent half green morocco with gilt-lettered title labels and tooling to spine, matching cloth sides. Some light and occasional toning. Contents clean, exterior..... More
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
London: Duckworth and Co., 1915. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST ROBINSON EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.240. Illustrated with 12 mounted colour plates, captioned tissues, and numerous two-tone illustrations and letter pieces. Elegantly bound in red half morocco over red cloth sides, with gilt-lettered title labels to spine, gilt centre tools, illustrated..... More