Limited edition Gregynog Press edition of selected autobiographical writings by Shaw. Number 103 of 300. Full leather binding designed by artist Paul Nash, with art deco style initials to front and rear cover. Printed on handmade paper by Arnold and Foster, [more...]
Handsome full leather tree calf set of Shakespeare's works featuring 66 illustrations from the Boydell Gallery. Containing all Histories, Tragedies, Comedies and his poems including Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets. The Boydell Gallery was an ambitious projec [more...]
Charming special edition of Shakespeare's Works, bound in publisher's lambskin with decorative floral design to spines. With introductory essays and glossary. Full leather. Top edge gilt. Frontis-portraits. Small 8vo. (185x135mm) light marking and scratch [more...]
A Neat, worn but rakish, quarter leather binding of the Handy-Volume edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, including his poems. Complete in 13 volumes. Top edge gilt. Decorated initials. Compact 32mo. (130x90mm). Leather is rubbed to edges. Some f [more...]
Handsome full leather tree calf binding of Byron's poetical works. Containing all his poems and verse epics and dramas including Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage etc. With a memoir of the author. Printed in double columns. Gilt decoration and raised ba [more...]
Splendid binding of Shakespeare's works, featuring the plays, sonnets and poems. Half leather with raised bands and floral decoration to spine. Armorial crest to cover. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. Printed in double columns. Silken book-marker. squa [more...]
Handsome binding of Goethe's great verse play. The first of Goethe's Faust play featuring the material of the legend of Johann Faust, though full of the authors own invention. Half red leather with raised bands and gilt to spine. Marbled end-papers with mat [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Containing all his plays; his longer poems, The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis; and all of his sonnets. Faux-leather burgundy cloth with gilt decoration. Infinitesimal foxing to top edge, very li [more...]
The collected essays of the playwright Richard Cumberland, first complied in 1785. Topics vary wildly, from musing on British society to literary examinations of Ancient Greek drama. Half leather with marbled boards. small 12mo. wear and cracking to hinges. [more...]
Individual volumes of Othello and Hamlet, published in 1798 as Harding's Editions, brought together in a collected edition of Shakespeare's works in 1800 (of which this is the twelfth volume) then rebound again as an stand-alone volume. 'Accurately Printed fr [more...]
Collection of dubiously attributed works by Shakespeare alongside his poems, including his Sonnets, Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece. Plays include Locrine, which may or may not have been revised by Shakespeare and Pericles Prince of Tyre and Titus An [more...]
Charming Oxford Miniature edition of Browning's selected poems, including pieces from Pippa Passes, Poems, Men and Women and more. Red leather with all edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Small 32mo. (110x75mm). Rubbing to edges, slight cracking to tail front hin [more...]
Handsome half cloth edition of Lytton's story of a woman dispossessed and disinherited. Marbled boards. Some rubbing to cloth. Some very light tanning to page edges. Otherwise tight and clean. Good. [more...]
Charming volume featuring a number of plays for Children including Cinderella and Red Riding Hood. With their text, music and directions on how to stage them. With numerous b/w images. With tissue guarded frontispiece. Good. [more...]
Pleasant soft leather suede binding of Browning's verse drama Pippa Passes. With frontispiece. No date but c. 1910. covers have some rubbing and nicks but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Goethe's great tragic play. From the 'Books that have shaped Man's thinking' series. Quarter cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. With an introduction and b/w images. An Appreciation to rear. Light foxing to top edge, otherwise [more...]
Four of Shakespeare's comedies, printed in 1798 and bound together for a 1800 collected edition, done without the plates. Half leather. Marbled boards. Wear to leather and spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Series of pioneering essays into the adaptation and production of Shakespeare on screen and on television. Slight shelfwear but interiors are crisp and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
The final and only extant work of Aeschylus' Oedipus trilogy, wherein the cursed sons of Oedipus do battle. Done in lively blank verse. Nicely produced volume. Dust jacket has some light marking and bumping. Volume crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
A 'straightforward' exploration of the work of six of the most important british dramatists of the last few decades. Wu charts how each writer responded to social and political changes. Also includes an interview with Ayckbourn and a preface discussing Stopp [more...]
