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...]
Shelley's complete works, edited by his second wife, Mary Shelley with her preface and notes on most significant pieces. Contains His poems, translations and lyric dramas including Prometheus Unbound. Full leather. Rebacked with new spines but retaining ori [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...]
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...]
Illustrated edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest featuring the songs and music of Joseph Moorat. With twenty tipped in colour illustrations by Paul Woodroffe, including some double page spreads, all with tissue guards. Top edge gilt. decorated endpapers. 4 [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...]
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...]
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...]
Handsome Temple edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy King Lear. 32mo. [xiii] 189pp. Neat leather volume with frontispiece and text printed in red/black. Top edge gilt. With preface and glossary by Israel Gollancz. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. [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...]
Terrific illustrated volume detailing life in Ancient Athens, from the political procedures, Theatre and artistic life; the geography and the social make-up of the city. With fold out map. Top edge gilt. Decorative red cloth. Spine is sunned with gilt faded [more...]
Early, presumably first, Folio Society edition of Thomas' great meditative play. Quarter cloth with decorative boards. With lithographs by Ceri Richards and an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon. Complete with slipcase. Some minor shelfwear to volume. Slip [more...]
From the uniform edition of Barrie's plays. Handsome blue leather edition of Barrie's Comedy. Top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. Some rubbing and shelfwear to covers. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Contents clean and prim, binding tight. Good/very go [more...]
