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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. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
London: Bickers and Son, 1890. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND, reprint thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 386 [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Burgundy full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Brown label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. A pencil..... 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 Works of William Shakespeare. The Victoria Edition.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND, reprint thus, from the Globe Edition. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 10cm), pp.[10] 544 [2]; pp.[8] 644 [2]; pp.[8] 666 [2]. Fairly small print arranged over two columns. Bound by RIVIERE & SON in red half calf..... 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 Works of William Shakespeare. Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers and Son, 1864. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[8] lxii; 1003 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard. In small print over columns on thin paper. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers and Son, 1883. [Shakespeare] FINE LEATHER PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.lxi [3] 1002 [2]. With an engraved portrait of Shakespeare and his facsimile signature underneath. Title page lettered in red and black. Contemporary burgundy full morocco, boards lavishly gilt-tooled, upper with the gilt armorial device of..... 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 Works of Shakespeare: The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings. Volume V: Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello; Anthonie and Cleopatra; Cymbeline.
New York, NY: Random House [Nonesuch Press], 1932. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Volume five only, out of seven. Large Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.iv; 804 [4]. One of 550 copies printed for the American market. 1050 copies printed for the UK. Publisher's tan full morocco, with raised bands and..... More
The Works of Shakespeare: The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings. Volume IV: Richard the Third; Henry the Eight; Troylus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Tymon of Athens.
New York, NY: Random House [Nonesuch Press], 1931. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Volume four only, out of seven. Large Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 777 [3]. One of 550 copies printed for the American market. 1050 copies printed for the UK. Publisher's tan full morocco, with raised bands and..... More
The Works of Shakespeare: The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings. Volume VI: Quarto Variants. Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Chronicle Historie of Henry Fift; The First Part of the Contention (Henry VI, Part II); The True Tragedie (Henry VI, Part III); Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet.
New York, NY: Random House [Nonesuch Press], 1932. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Volume six only, out of seven. Large Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 517 [3]. One of 550 copies printed for the American market. 1050 copies printed for the UK. Publisher's tan full morocco, with raised bands and..... More
The Works of Shakespeare: The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings. Volume III: King John; Richard the Second; Henry the Fourth, Part I; Henry the Fourth, Part II; Henry the Fift; Henry the Sixt, Part I; Henry the Sixt, Part II; Henry the Sixt, Part III.
New York, NY: Random House [Nonesuch Press], 1930. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Volume three only, out of seven. Large Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 849 [3]. One of 550 copies printed for the American market. 1050 copies printed for the UK. Publisher's tan full morocco, with raised bands and..... More
Hey Nonny Yes. Passions and Conceits from Shakespeare.
London: The Saturn Press, 1947. [Quotations] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (15 x 12cm), unpaginated. With 16 colour illustrations by Ardizzone. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A crisp, clean copy, with some minor bumping to corners and spine. Jacket toned and a little rubbed, with some..... 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
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. Whittingham's Edition. In Seven Volumes. With Two Hundred and Thirty Embellishments; a Life of the Poet; The Preface by Dr. Johnson; and a Glossarial Index.
London, Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1814. [Shakespeare's Works] LEATHER-BOUND COMPLETE SET, Whittingham's Edition. Complete in seven volumes. Small octavo (12 x 8 x 22cm), pp.lxxii; 68; 68; 84; 76; 82 [2]; pp.[6] 78; 64; 80; 78; [2] 80; 86 [2]; pp.[6] 80; 92; 56; 72; 78; [2] 80 [2];..... More
![Item #57101 [Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593449275)
[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
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 publisher's gilt-decorated light brown buckram. Some acceptable spotting/browning, lacks initial blank, cloth gently toned to spine, minor soil at foot. A very good..... 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, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue-guard. Publisher's cream cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Presented in a custom-made cream cloth clamshell box, lined with..... More
The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
London: Duckworth and Co., no date [1915]. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST ROBINSON EDITION, first impression. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 240. Illustrated with 12 mounted colour plates, each with a captioned tissue-guard, and numerous head and tail pieces. Publisher's red cloth, with titles and decoration in gilt to spine and blind..... 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=1631377046)
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 Life of Henry VIII. In Which are Interspersed, Historical Notes, Moral Reflections and Observations, in Respect to the Unhappy Fate Cardinal Wolsey met With.
London: Printed for D. Browne, without Temple-Bar [etc]., [1758]. [Drama] EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.iv [4] 116. With several copper-plates including a frontispiece. Nonpareil marbled paper over boards, raised bands to spine. Errata to pp.116. Light internal toning, a moderate amount of soiling/splashing and spotting throughout. Some..... More
Shakespeare's Songs, With Drawings by Henry Ospovat.
London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901. [Shakespeare] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.vii [1] 140 [4]. With eleven line drawings by Ospovat including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Moderate toning and..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1885]. [Shakespeare] UNIQUE LACQUERED WOOD BINDING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.832. Numerous illustrations including a tissue-guarded frontispiece with facsimile signature, as well as title-page vignette. Rebound with pictorial lacquered wooden boards, original paper-covered spine. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers. Text in two..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare. With Gossary, Life, Etc.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., no date [circa 1890]. [Works of Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND 'Albion' edition, first thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.1136. With a frontispiece engraving of the author, title page printed in black and red, text in two columns. Elegantly bound in contemporary red full morocco with raised..... More
![Item #70958 The Sonnets of Shakspere [Shakespeare]. SHAKESPEARE, William SHAKSPERE, Edward DOWDEN](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70958.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738690142)
The Sonnets of Shakspere [Shakespeare].
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881. [Love Poetry] FIRST DOWDEN EDITION, finely bound and printed. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[6] lxii; 251 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, as well as extensive notes and an introduction. Printed by A. and T. Constable at the Edinburgh University..... More
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