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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
Tales From Shakespeare. [Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.]
London: The Temple Press, 1909. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, an early reissue. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.xii; 304. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text line drawings, all by Rackham. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the..... More
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 Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With Remarks on His Life and Writings by Thomas Campbell.
London: Edward Moxon, 1848. [Shakespeare's Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] lxxx; 960 [2]. Portrait frontispiece and vignette title page, small text in two columns per page. Bound in burgundy morocco by Hayday, gilt titles and decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt decorative panelling..... 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
![Item #57101 [Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593449283)
[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
Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated Shakespeare] FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xxxvi; 143 [1]. With 24 mounted colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and red titles with dark green decoration..... More
![Item #60148 The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare]. William SHAKESPEARE](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631377083)
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
![Item #64427 The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare]. William SHAKESPEARE](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64427.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684772405)
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
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