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...]
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...]
Impressive illustrated edition of Green's pioneering history of England that eschews War and International politics and focuses on English people and society; which, according to Green, was more influential to the nation and its development than battles and ki [more...]
Elegantly bound edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and shorter poems/songs. Published and bound by Hatchards in their customary style. Full red leather with raised bands. Gilt rules to inner and outer edges. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edges uncut. 12mo [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...]
Selection of 40 memorable quotes and lines from Shakespeare's work, each illustrated in colour by Walter Crane. With an illustrated title page. This work was dedicated to the countess of Warwick, whose Garden had inspired Crane and is signed by the Countess [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...]
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...]
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...]
Interesting full leather binding of Shakespeare's complete works, featuring the plays, sonnets and longer poems, plus a glossary and notes. The larger format india paper edition. Yapp style binding, with elaborate blind-stamping to produce a woven leather ef [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...]
Military themed quotes from Shakespeare with colour illustrations by Seccombe. Complete with 24 plates. Oblong 4to. No date but c. 1880. Rubbing to edges, bumping to spine. Previous owner's name to half-title. Mild tanning to page edges. Contents clea [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...]
Charming collection of songs from Shakespeare's plays, illustrated with colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout. Complete with DJ. Mild rubbing to edges, toning to covers. Mild foxing to edges. Foxing to front matter and last few leaves. Otherwise [more...]
First edition from the Folio Society series of Shakespeare's complete plays. Illustrated with the designs for costumes and stages by Tanya Moiseiwitsch done for the Stratford Company's tour of Australia and New Zealand. With an introduction by Ivor Brown. [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [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...]
Elegant collection of significant english verse from a variety of poets, from Chaucer to Arnold. Limp blue leather. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Decorated end-papers. Toning and creasing to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and [more...]
