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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Charming suede leather edition of this anthology of poetry on the theme of wayfaring, tramping, wandering and the spiritual appreciation of nature. Yapp edges. All page edges gilt. With decorative endpapers by Iris Bland. No date but c. 1920. Edges of cov [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...]
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 mild shelfwear to slipcase. Tiny marks to spine. Contents crisp and clean. Ve [more...]
