Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 441pp. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. Armorial bookplate, Gilt tooling to both boards, board edges, & spine.
Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom
William Shakespeare. The Plays William Shakspeare. Vol VI. J. Nichols, 1811.
Price: US$30.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1811. New Edition. 524 pages. Fully bound in leather. Vol VI. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book has a slight musty odour. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges.Hinges are lightly cracked but boards remain firmly attached. Binding remains firm overall. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Minor creasing and splitting to joints. Spine has visible creasing and tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a very slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
William Shakespeare. The Plays of William Shakspeare, Vol. 7. J. Nichols & Sons, 1811.
Price: US$30.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1811. 480 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Vol. 7. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
William Shakespeare. The Plays of William Shakspeare, Vol. 4. J. Nichols & Sons, 1811.
Price: US$30.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1811. New Edition. 518 pages. No dust jacket. Full bound brown leather. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable cracking to leather on spine. Moderate scuffing to edges and joints, mild cracking to rear joint. Mild scuffing to rear board.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Half leather bound, new edition. Accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Stevens, Esq. with a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentator; 'A History of the Stage', 'A Life of Shakespeare' etc., by Alexander Chalmers. Raised spine bands and gilt decorated spine, marbled boards, frontispiece of Shakespeare. 490pp with this 5th volume containing the Second Part of King Henry IV, King Henry V, and King Henry VI. Shelf worn. Boards are scuffed and front board is just hanging on. Corners quite heavily rubbed. Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner name on front blank. 680 grams.
Seller: Books on the Web, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$48.89 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 307 p., clean and unmarked within on extraordinarily fine, strong paper discolored only on t.p. where card has been removed; former owner's name on front paste down; date of front end page;frontis. portrait of Shakespeare; gutters cracked and leather-covered boards detached from text block with awkward reattachment attempted with tape. This volume deserves rescue from outrage with skillful repair. Spine panel has name Shakspeare [sic] in gilt lettering on green patch.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Half leather bound, new edition. Accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Stevens, Esq. With a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentator; 'A History of the Stage', 'A Life of Shakespeare' etc., by Alexander Chalmers. Raised spine bands and gilt decorated spine, marbled boards, frontispiece of Shakespeare. 309pp with this first volume containing The Tempest, The Gentlemen of Verona, and Merry Wives of Windsor. Boards are scuffed. Leather worn through at joints down spine and corners quite heavily rubbed. Moderately foxed throughout. Library tape supporting spine ends. Previous owner name on front blank. 670 grams.
Seller: Books on the Web, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$60.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. 5 only; leather binding tight butvery worn at spine ends, corners bumped; inside very clean, name on title page; 490 pages; King Henry IV., part II. King Henry V. King Henry VI., part I. King Henry VI., part II.; the book has no plates;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$375.84 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Complete in ten matching volumes, 10 x 15 x 23 cm shelf run (image 1). Beautifully bound in green calf full leather front and rear (image 2), gilt dentelles. Decorated spines, with two red leather labels each volume (image 1). We categorize this set as Near Fine, with some light foxing only to some preliminaries. Volume 1 with full page B & W engraved portrait of Shakspeare as frontispiece (image 3). Vol. 4 Title: Image 4. Vol. 10 title: image 5. No other sets thus, found. Each volume with a discrete stamp "C. Baldwin. Printer, New Bridge-street, London;". A lovely early set.
Seller: The Sanctuary Bookshop., Lyme Regis, United Kingdom
Price: US$417.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 422, 426, 451, 509, 444, 441, 504, 486 S., 8 Halblederbändchen der Zeit mit goldenem Rückentitel, Einbände und Lederrücken leicht berieben, das achte Bändchen ist etwas schief gelegen und am Rücken leicht beschädigt, sonst sind alle Bände innen sauber und erstaunlich gut erhalten, mit allen Kupfern, seltene und feine Sammlerausgabe Wir senden umgehend mit beiliegender MwSt.Rechnung. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1442
Seller: ANTIQUARIAT Franke BRUDDENBOOKS, Lübeck, Germany
Price: US$435.09 + shipping
Description: ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 6.2kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 8¼" x 5¼" (6.2 kg); Edited by Alexander Chalmers; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece to volume I; Marbled lining papers; All edges marbled; Complete in nine volumes: Volume 1: Historical and Critical Matter; The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; Volume 2: Twelfth-night; Measure for Measure; Much Ado About Nothing; Midsummer-night's Dream; Love's Labour's Lost; Volume 3: Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well; Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale; Volume 4: Comedy of errors; Macbeth; King John; King Richard II; King Henry IV Part I; Volume 5: King Henry IV Part II; King Henry V; King Henry VI Part I; King Henry VI Part II; Volume 6. King Henry VI Part III; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Volume 7: Timon of Athens; Coriolanus; Julius Ceasar; Antony and Cleopatra; Volume 8: Cymbeline; Titus Andronicus; Pericles; King Lear; Volume 9: Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello; Glossarial Index; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #190220|| Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the bindings of all nine volumes, the leather worn at the bands, spine and corners. The contents lightly toned with age with a little damp-staining to the beginning of volume I but a decent set none the less.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
William Shakespeare. The Plays of William Shakespeare. J. Nichols, 1811.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Shakespeare, W. The Plays. Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq. Ed. A. Chalmers. London, J. Nichols and Son etc., 1811, new ed., 9 vols., steelengr. portrait and 38 plates after H. FUSELI, contemp. unif. calf, spines gilt w. green mor. onlay pieces, marbled edges. - Vol. 4 rather heavily (water)stained/ darkened at the beginning and end; one leaf in first vol. torn; occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed. Joints. sl. rubbed occas. splitting. = Attractively bound set.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1254.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: J. Nichols and Son., F. C. And J. Rivington, J. Stockdale et al, 1811. New edition, 1811. Nine attractively bound volumes, volume I with some internal spotting (see full description), remaining volumes very good. Full period smooth calf leather with raised spine bands, gilt decorated compartments, marbled edges, frontis portrait in volume I, about 8.5" tall. Some expected rubbing to the extremities, spines very good but show their age mainly through a nice patina as well as some minor scuffs and scratches, front joints of volumes I and IX lightly cracked but covers very secure, text blocks firm, and except for first volume, pages very clean and unmarked. Volume I has slightly darkened area covering about a third of the front cover surface as well as a coffee colored stain affecting the lower corner of the first several pages, fading considerably for most of the book - overall about a quarter of the pages are affected with the stain affecting no text other than the bottom line of the publisher list on the title page. Volume I also has some foxing to the frontis and foxing and offsetting to the title page, some notes about the set (which plays are in which volume) on the final blank, no other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: A New edition. Illustrated, vol. 1 frontispiece portrait of the author. 10 vols. 12mo. Reprints Mr. Rowe's Account of the Life and Writings of Shakspeare and Samuel Johnson's Preface to his 1765 edition of Shakespeare, his "short Strictures" at the conclusion of each play "containing a general censure of faults, or praise of excellence," as well as a glossary and footnotes. Photo Three-quarter calf and marbled paper boards, all edges marbled, red spine titles with minimal gilt, some general rubbing around the edges, some offsetting from plates Illustrated, vol. 1 frontispiece portrait of the author. 10 vols. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.