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...]
First edition with first issue points present (elgble on p.19 etc.). With 40 b/w illustrations by Phiz including the 10 dramatic dark plates. 8vo. (215x145mm) [xvi] 624pp. Rebacked half leather with original gilt decorated spine (with small portion missing [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 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...]
Handsome tree calf leather binding of Sophocles' earliest surviving tragedy. With English translation to recto and ancient greek to Verso. With copious notes by Jebb. 8vo. (220x150mm) [lxxiii] 258pp. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edge. [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...]
Pleasant half leather Tauchnitz copyright edition of Macaulay's dramatic historical poems based on heroic episodes from early roman history, with the Ivry and The Armada. Gilt decorated spine, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece. 15.5x11cm 240pp. [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...]
Hadsome Temple edition of Richard II. 32mo. [x] 141pp. Neat leather volume with frontispiece and text printed in red/black. Top edge gilt. With preface and glossary by Israel Gollancz. Spine has rubbing to extremities. Slight scratch to cover. Binding [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...]
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...]
New Temple edition of Shakespeare's As you Like it, featuring two engravings by Eric Gill. Red cloth. 32mo. [xix] 130pp. Dust jacket is price-clipped with small tears to extremities and some tape repairs to top of spine. Previous owner's inscription to f [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Lord Anson's account of his dramatic circumnavigation and his fleet's battles with the Spanish and disease. Bound in blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w images and introduction. S [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. Decorated end-papers. With an introduction and b/w images. An Appreciation of the author to the re [more...]
