Lavishly rebound illustrated edition of Shakespeare complete dramatic works with a life of the author, an account of the various folio editions, the various commendatory poems that accompanied those early editions and an explanation of Shakespeare name and sig [more...]
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...]
Early collected edition, published during the poet's lifetime, containing all his verse dramas and poems up until early 1819. Vol. I (1818): Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos I & II; Vol. II (1818): The Giacour & The Bride of Abydos; Vol. III (1818): The Cors [more...]
Lavishly illustrated, hefty folio Virtue edition of Shakespeare's plays. With 46 full page steel engravings including frontis-portrait and engraved title pages, done from the pictures of Cope, Frith, Leslie, Maclise and others. Contains all Shakespeare's play [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding, done by Bumpus. The Victoria edition of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, plus his poems. Printed in double columns. Raised bands and floral gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled boards with matchin [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...]
Displaying 'The multiform phases of the Human Mind, collated, elucidated and alphabetically arranged'. Extracts and examples of Shakespeare's plays that present philosophical and moral lessons on human behaviour, giving, if you will, Shakespeare philosophy. R [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...]
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...]
Handsome, if worn, leather binding of the Chandos poets edition of Shakespeare's works including his Histories, Comedies and Tragedies as well as his sonnets and longer poems as well as a memoir of the Bard and glossary. Tissue guarded frontisportrait. Full l [more...]
Definitive biography of the mercurial Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. With b/w plates. Complete with slipcase. Dust jackets are price-clipped with mild bumping and shelf-wear. Rubbing to slipcase. Previous owner's name to ffeps. Volumes otherwise c [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...]
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...]
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...]
