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William Shakespeare | First Editions
1564 - 1616
See below our stock of William Shakespeare First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Tales From Shakspeare. Designed for the Use of Young People.
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 about Tales From Shakspeare. Designed for the Use of Young People
Tales From Shakespeare. [writings/plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.]
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1909. First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto, with 12 colour plates and other black and white drawings. Publisher's red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine and upper, top edge gilt, others tinted green, illustrated endpapers, in original dust-wrapper. Book is near fine, jacket... More about Tales From Shakespeare. [writings/plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A...
Tales From Shakespeare [writings/plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.] By Charles and Mary Lamb. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent and Co. 1909. First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto, with 12 colour plates and other black and white drawings. Publisher's green cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine and upper, top edge gilt, illustrated end papers, original printed dust-wrapper. Lightly rubbed to extremities, edges toned, offset... More about Tales From Shakespeare [writings/plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A...
A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
Constable and Co. Ltd., London, 1914. FIRST HEATH ROBINSON EDITION, trade issue, in the first of three publisher's bindings. Quarto, pp. 185. With twelve mounted coloured plates and thirty-two black & white illustrations. All tissue guards intact. Mid-green cloth blocked in gilt and colours. Some light edge-spotting, Constable's catalogue insert... More about A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
The Winter's Tale.
London: J. M. Dent and sons, no date [circa1922]. [Illustrated] FIRST ARMFIELD ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[10]; 99; [1]. With 12 chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Pencil gift inscription to flyleaf; light spotting to title page. Lightly... More about The Winter's Tale
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: with Explanatory Notes. To Which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words, by Samuel Ayscough.
London: Printed for John Stockdale [etc.], 1807. [Shakespeare's Works]. STOCKDALE EDITION, the Fourth Edition thus. In three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[26]; 542; [2]; pp.[6]; 543-1080; [4]; pp.[4]; 1752; [12]. With a frontispiece copper engraving of the Bard to volume I. The plays over two volumes, and the Index... More about The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: with Explanatory Notes. To Which is Added, a Copious...
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, With a Biographical Introduction by Henry Glassford Bell.
Glasgow, Edinburgh and London: William Collins, 1864. [Shakespeare's Plays] ONE-VOLUME EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 17cm), pp.li; [1]; 952; [2]. With 15 etched plates including a frontispiece, and a steel-engraved vignette title page. In contemporary black full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration to... More about The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, With a Biographical Introduction by Henry Glassford Bell
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With Remarks on his Life and Writings by Thomas Campbell.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Works of Shakespeare] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.lxxx; 960. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, as well as an engraved title page to each play, by various artists. Fairly small type printed in two columns... More about The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With Remarks on his Life and Writings by Thomas Campbell
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The Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare], Revised from the best Authorities: with a memoir, and essay on his Genius, by Barry Cornwall: Annotations and Introductory Remarks in the Plays, by many distinguished writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Kenny Meadows.
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1844. [Drama and Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, second thus. Three volumes. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[4] xxxiv; 602; pp.[6] 570; pp.[6] 498 [20]. Illustrated with frequent in-text wood engravings by Meadows. Contemporary or slightly later full burgundy morocco with raised bands, gilt titles... More about The Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare], Revised from the best Authorities: with a memoir, and essay...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1912. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.1350. Portrait frontispiece. The text printed in double column. Fine contemporary marbled calf by Riviere and Son, gilt titles on a red morocco label to spine, extra gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally fine. Binding... More about The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Shakespeare's plays] FIRST EDITION. 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 about The Tragedies of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1908]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY THUS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.xxiv; 144. With 40 tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. A little shaken, slightly toned to edges;... More about Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac
The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. FINELY BOUND, fourth edition thus. In ten volumes. Octavo. With a steel engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard and a facsimile plate of signatures and seals to vol. I. The final volume consists of an extensive glossary. Finely bound in contemporary dark brown full calf... More about The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with notes, critical, historical, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent commentators: to which is prefixed a life of the author.
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 about The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with notes, critical, historical, and explanatory,...
Works of Shakespeare. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by C. H. Herford.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901-1912. FINELY BOUND. In ten volumes. Crown octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxii, 389 [2]; pp.[2] vi, 572 [2]; pp.[2] vi, 500 [2]; pp.[2] vi, 494 [2]; pp.[2] viii, 542 [2]; pp.[2] iv, 515 [3]; pp.[2] vi, 521 [3]; pp.[2] vi, 417 [3]; pp.[2] vi, 398... More about Works of Shakespeare. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by C. H. Herford
The Works of William Shakespeare. Knight's Cabinet Edition.
London: Charles Knight and Co., 1843-1847. [Drama] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Twelve volumes. Small octavo (14 x 9 x 28cm). Each volume with a wood engraved title page, and a wood engraved title page for each play. Ten volumes of plays, with two additional volumes containing poems, biography and criticism... More about The Works of William Shakespeare. Knight's Cabinet Edition
A Midsummer Night's Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
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 about A Midsummer Night's Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
The Works of Shakespeare;
London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1862. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Three volumes. Quarto (26 x 19 x 17cm). Liberally illustrated with in-text engravings by the Dalziel brothers, after Gilbert. Contemporary red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and red leather-grain-effect cloth over boards... More about The Works of Shakespeare
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare From Text Of Johnson, Stevens, And Reed, With Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc. A New Edition By William Hazlitt, ESQ.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge 1860. Octavo. Four volumes. Pp.xix; 526. Pp;528. Pp;560. Pp;553. Green half calf binding with green cloth boards, marbled endpapers. Gilt top edges and gilt lettering and centre tooling to spine with plain raised bands. Occassional pencil underlining and some very light spotting to the prelims... More about The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare From Text Of Johnson, Stevens, And Reed, With...
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 about The Works of William Shakespeare
The Works of Shakespeare. Edited by Israel Gollancz. With many illustrations, antiquarian and topographical.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1899. 12 volumes; 8vo. Contemporary binding by Riviere in half red calf with gilt titles and gilt to spines, red cloth boards, top edges gilt, marbled end papers. Illustrated with full page and in text drawings. Frontispiece portrait in colour. A lovely set, very lightly... More about The Works of Shakespeare. Edited by Israel Gollancz. With many illustrations, antiquarian and...
The Plays of Shakespeare. Edited by Howard Staunton. [writings/works including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, etc.] Illustrated by John Gilbert and Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
Routledge, London 1860. 4to, 3 volumes. With 5 mini engraved portraits of the author as frontispiece. Bound in contemporary full tan calf, red and green title labels, extra gilt; gilt rule to boards. Bindings rubbed. Complete and sound. A good sound set. More about The Plays of Shakespeare. Edited by Howard Staunton. [writings/works including Romeo and Juliet,...
The Plays. Accurately printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies left by the late George Steevens and Edmond Malone, with Mr. Malone's various Readings. A selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the most eminent Commentators. A History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakespeare, by Alexander Chalmers. The works include: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony & Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, etc.
London: Printed for Longman and Co., Rivington,... 1856. 8 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary full tan calf boards with gilt rule, later respined in light calf with twin, red and maroon title labels, and gilt tooling to spines; marbled end papers and edges. Portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare to volume I. Corners rubbed;... More about The Plays. Accurately printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies left by the late George...
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: William Heinemann, 1910. FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, pp.170. With 40 mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Original binding of blue cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge tinted blue, other edges untrimmed. Some foxing to first and final leaves, lighter spotting within, binding lightly marked. Very good indeed. More about The Merry Wives of Windsor. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
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