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...]
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...]
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...]
Charming collection of nature themed poetry chosen from a wide variety of authors including Bryant, Wordsworth, Holmes, Lowell, Keats plus some lesser known poets. Interesting prize binding. Half leather with marbled boards and matching marbling to endpapers [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...]
Charming little volume containing many popular shorter poems. With DJ. 32mo. 80pp. Red cloth boards. Some shelfwear, bumping and small tears to DJ. Contents clean and prim. Very good overall. [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...]
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...]
Charming volume of humourous or notable after dinner type speeches selected by Tim Heald from throughout history. Features illustrations by Paul Cox. Complete with slipcase. Some very light foxing to page edge, otherwise pristine. Very good condition overa [more...]
Cheeky but terrific volume containing a host of epochal writing. Includes Shakespeare's Hamlet, Plato's apology and death of socrates, Charles Lamb on Witches, selections from Jane Eyre, Frankenstein and more. QUarter faux Leather. Wear and soiling to cover [more...]
Interesting compilation of contemporary accounts and documents that reveal Shakespeare's life and world, with a view to how they manifested within his work. Including his letters and accounts, with numerous colour and b/w images. Decorated endpapers. Quarte [more...]
Neat quarter cloth volume from the plays of Shakespeare containing two comedies. With b/w frontispiece. Small 12mo. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Otherwise contents clean and tight. Good condition. [more...]
Interesting compilation of contemporary accounts and documents that reveal Shakespeare's life and world, with a view to how they manifested within his work. Including his letters and accounts, with numerous colour and b/w images. Decorated endpapers. Quarte [more...]
Handsome old paperback edition of Shakespeare great tragedy. With an introduction then several short commentaries to the rear. Some shelfwear and tanning. Otherwise clean and tight. A nice edition. Good overall. [more...]
