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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
The Family Shakespeare. In which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.
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
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With remarks on his life and writings by Thomas Campbell.
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
The Plays of William Shakespeare. The Comedies; The Histories; The Tragedies.
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
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, no date [circa 1900]. [Drama and Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] viii; 1264 [4]. Small print in two columns, printed on thin paper. Contemporary brown full morocco by MUDIE of London, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All..... More
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
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
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[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
The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited by Thomas Keightley.
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
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
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 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
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The Plays of William Shakspeare [Shakespeare], Accurately printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy left the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes. To which are prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of Shakspeare, by Mr. Rowe, and Dr. Johnson's Celebrated Preface to his Edition of Shakspeare, printed in 1765.
London: Printed for Otridge & Rackham, [etc.] 1824. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (18 x 11 x 27cm), pp.[10] xcii; 308 [2]; pp.[6] 328 [2]; pp.[6] 347 [3]; pp.[6] 323 [3]; pp.[6] 398 [2]; pp.[6] 302 [2]; pp.[6] 336 [2]; pp.[6] 399 [3]; pp.[6]..... 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
The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
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
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