'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...]
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...]
Collection of 5 late 17th/early 18th century plays bound together. Featuring Wycherley's comedies The Country Wife (Ben Motte, 1729) and The Plain Dealer (W. Feales, 1734) and the tragedies Congreve's Mourning Bride (J. & R. Tonson, 1742), Hughes' Siege of Da [more...]
Impressive full leather edition of Shakespeare's complete works containing his Comedies, Tragedies and Histories plus his longer poems and sonnets. With an introduction by Peter Alexander plus the preliminary matter of the First Folio of 1623, including the p [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...]
'A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians and of the Dramatic Performances in Athens'. The second edition, Revised, enlarged and in part rewritten. A comprehensive, scholarly examination of the ancient Greek theatre. With b/w images. Full le [more...]
Impressive full leather edition of Shakespeare's complete works containing his Comedies, Tragedies and Histories plus his longer poems and sonnets. Bound in red leather with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Printed in d [more...]
Handsome edition of Yeats' verse and dramas up to 1894, that were subsequently revised by the author. Contains Countess Cathleen, The Rose, The Land of Heart's Desire, Crossways and the Wanderings of Oisin. With terrific gilt and blind-stamped design to spi [more...]
Splendid Folio Society edition Wilde's enduring 1895 comedy. With colour illustrations by Cecil Beaton plus numerous two drawings within the text. Bound in green silk moire cloth. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has toning and rubbing to edges. Sunning t [more...]
Definitive biography of the mercurial Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. With b/w plates. Complete with slipcase. Dust jackets are price-clipped with mild bumping and shelf-wear. Rubbing to slipcase. Previous owner's name to ffeps. Volumes otherwise c [more...]
Quarter cloth binding of Galsworthy's collected plays, including The Silver Box and Strife. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Blind stamped decoration. 8vo. Toning to front cover. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Charming collection of quotes from Shakespeare that touch or lie somewhere between the extremes of Love and Hate. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Small 32mo. With pictorial covers. Crease to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Charming Oxford Miniature edition of Browning's selected poems, including pieces from Pippa Passes, Poems, Men and Women and more. Red leather with all edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Small 32mo. (110x75mm). Rubbing to edges, slight cracking to tail front hin [more...]
Giddy history of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/1905 a struggle of 'stupendous magnitude'. By the war correspondent Tyler. With numerous dramatic illustrations and maps. 8vo. Patterned cloth. Decorative end-papers. Rubbing and bumping to spine. Previous [more...]
