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...]
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...]
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...]
'A Series of Twenty-Four Drawings in Colour by Katharine Cameron. With an Anthology of Flower Poems Selected by Edward Thomas'. Charming collection of poetry on a natural/floral theme chosen by Edward Thomas. With 24 colour tipped in images by Katharine Cam [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the monumental anthology of Poetry in the English Language, selected by W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson in 1952. Mustard faux-leather cloth with gilt titling and decoration. Very faint foxing to top edge, else crisp and cle [more...]
Individual volumes of Othello and Hamlet, published in 1798 as Harding's Editions, brought together in a collected edition of Shakespeare's works in 1800 (of which this is the twelfth volume) then rebound again as an stand-alone volume. 'Accurately Printed fr [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...]
Single volume from a complete works rebound. Contains three of Shakespeare's histories. New leather spine onto original marbled boards. (Presumably) leather onlays missing from spine. Spotting within. But binding nice and tight. 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 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...]
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...]
