'With illustrations on steel and wood by the most eminent artists'. Splendid half leather set of this lavishly illustrated guide to the sights and landscape of Great Britain and Europe. With dramatic, somewhat romantic full page, tissue guarded steel engravi [more...]
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...]
Tremendous illustrated 'Savoy' edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Including all his plays and his sonnets plus his longer poems, the Rape of Lucrece etc. Printed in double columns. With a brief biography. With 28 colour images, including the Chandos p [more...]
Fantastic illustrated edition of Shakespeare's comedy with 20 colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Quarto. 185pp. Black cloth with decorated gilt titles. Some of Rackham's best, most evocative work, with b/w sketches throughout. Some light rubbing and bumping [more...]
Neat set of Shakespeare's complete works in a small compact but not quite miniature format. Full leather bindings, all edges gilt. Each volume with several b/w illustrations. Complete with original silk lined, padded box with contents printed onto silk bene [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...]
Beautifully produced retellings of Shakespeare's play in verse, by Valentine. Includes The Merchant of Venice, A Winter's Tale, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew. Sepia toned chromolithographic illustrations throughout plus colour plates done by R. And [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...]
Nicely bound seventh edition of Congreve works, including his plays ( The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, Love for Love, The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgement of Paris, Semele) as well as his poems. With a life of the author. Engraved fr [more...]
The Second edition of the Norton facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623, printed by Blount and Jaggard. With two introductions explaining the origins, printing methods and modern scholarship of the First Folio. Bound in quarter bonded leather with pic [more...]
Nice stout, half leather binding of Shakespeare's complete works, including his Histories, Comedies and Tragedies as well as his sonnets and longer poems. With 64 b/w images of pictures of shakespearian scenes done by well known artists including Hamilton and [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...]
Neat quarter leather binding of the Everyman edition of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, plus his poems. Reprinted editions from 1929, 1931 and 1932. Blue leather with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. 12mo. Rubbing to leather at top [more...]
Complete works of the 17th century dramatist. Full leather with gilt decoration and titling to spine. Marbled end-papers. Frontisportrait. Severe rubbing and wear to spines and joints. Front board of volume II detached. Others starting, one with previous [more...]
Handsomely rebound reprint of Egan's then scarce revealing tale on the life of actors and the theater business. Complete with 27 hand coloured plates plus further b/w illustrations and decorations within the text. Half leather with marbled boards. Top edge [more...]
First edition of this medieval tale of two very different twins. With dramatic b/w illustrations by Lawson. The third collaboration between Leaf and Lawson after Ferdinand and Wee Gillis. Decorated end-papers. 4to. DJ has tears to edges, with slight los [more...]
Handsomely produced illustrated edition of Barrie's 1902 play. Featuring 20 tipped in colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson, plus further b/w drawings within the text. Red cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. 4to. Some toning to spine. Rubbing to e [more...]
Beautifully illustrated edition of Shakespeare's comedy featuring Sir John Falstaff. With 40 tipped in tissue guarded colour plates done by Hugh Thomson. Blue cloth with gilt decoration. 4to. light rubbing to edges. Foxing to fore-edge. Mild tanning with [more...]
Impressive Easton Press edition of Haggard's dramatic 1887 adventure of lost civilizations and sorceresses. Full leather with gilt design to covers. Decorative devices within. All edges gilt. Some light shelf-wear to edges, else crisp and clean. Fine cond [more...]
Illustrated with 8 colour plates, done with Tempura by Armfield. Two are double page. Gilt decorated cloth covers. 4to. Not date but c. 1922. Some offsetting/rubbing to the two sets of facing plates. Some mild staining to cover. Toning to spine. Rubbin [more...]
