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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep": The Edition De Luxe of The New Century Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The New Century Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the latest edition of William Aldis Wright.
Boston: Dana Estes and Company 1901.
The Edition De Luxe of The New Century Shakespeare, limited to only one thousand copies. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter period crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with engraved plates, each with lettered tissue guard including frontispiece to each volume, title pages printed in red and black. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 534. Introductions, notes and glossaries to each Play by Israel Gollancz. In very good condition. A handsomely bound and printed edition of Shakespeare’s works.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 145932
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare; elaborately bound in full morocco
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With A Glossary.
Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham 1825.
Finely bound example of the collected dramatic works of William Shakespeare. 12mo, bound in full pebbled dark green morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels withing triple gilt ruling to the spine and front panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, engraved additional pictorial title and title-vignette. In very good condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 142618
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow": The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of The Works of William Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The Works of William Shakespeare.
Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press 1904.
The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Brentanos, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 98. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 139577
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool": The esteemed large-type edition of Collier's Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. EDITED BY JOHN PAYNE COLLIER.
The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, A Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage.
London: Whittaker & Co 1842-1844.
The large-type edition of Collier’s Shakespeare. Octavo, three of nine original volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare engraved from the Folio edition of 1623. Mixed editions. In good condition. Uncommon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138774
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Rare eighteenth century collection of the Tragedies and Comedies of the great English Playwrights including William Shakespeare and John Dryden
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; JOHN DRYDEN; WILLIAM CONGREVE; ET AL.
Tragedies and Comedies of the Great English Playwrights.
London: Various Publishers c.1730-1760.
Finely bound sammelband collection of comedies and tragedies by early English playwrights including William Shakespeare, John Dryden, and William Congreve. Octavo, 43 volumes bound into 7 in half contemporary calf over marbled boards with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, numerous engraved frontispieces, headpieces, tailpieces and illustrations. In very good condition. A very unique collection.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 137210
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First edition of Hugh Thomson's illustrated rendition of William Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. ILLUSTRATED BY HUGH THOMSON.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers 1910.
First trade edition of Hugh Thomson’s elaborately illustrated rendition of Shakespeare’s famed comedy. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with 39 colored plates by Hugh Thomson. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135149
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Rare Limited Édition Artistique Edition of the selected works of the great authors; one of only 75 sets produced
BOURGET, PAUL; GUSTAVE FLAUBERT; THEOPHILE GAUTIER; LONGUS; PAUL DE MUSSET; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Romeo and Juliet; Anthony and Cleopatra; King Candaules; A Night of Cleopatra; Jean and Jeannette; Daphnis and Chloe; Heródias; A Simple Heart; Pastels; The Last Abbé.
Société des Beaux Arts: Paris n.d .
The Édition Artistique of the selected works of Flaubert, Shakespeare, Gautier, Musset and Longus. Quarto, 10 volumes bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling embellished with botanical decorations with white, red and violet morocco onlays, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, full morocco doublures, silk-watered endleaves, top edge gilt others untrimmed, with illustrations by J. Wagrez, Louis Titz, Emile Adan, Georges Rochegrosse, Paul Avril and others. Prefaces by Anatole France and Leo Claretie. One of 75 numbered copies produced for England and America, this is number 73. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 132844
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting of Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare with Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice. [Fore-edge Painting].
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis n.d.
Finely bound example of Inglis’ compilation of the dramas of Shakespeare. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of Shakespeare, illustrated with four engravings on steel. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138237
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"The largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England": Rare Finely Bound Complete Set of Boydell's Monumental illustrated edition of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. REVISED BY GEORGE STEEVENS.
The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nicol. 1802.
Rare finely bound complete set of “by far the largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England”, John Boydell’s magnificent illustrated folio edition of the dramatic works of Shakespeare. Folio, 9 volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine, all edges marbled. Elaborately illustrated with 96 plates engraved by the most eminent British engravers and painters of the era including Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Angelica Kauffman, Robert Smirke, James Durno, John Opie, Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Kirk, and Henry Thomson. Edited by George Steevens, one of the greatest Shakespearean scholars of the 18th century. In near fine condition. A rare complete set of Boydell’s masterpiece, for which he spared no expense to produce.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 109329