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Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: , complete with 170 plates (including 15 frontispieces) across all 15 volumes First Edition , some rubbing to edges, some with partial or missing title labels, some plates tanned, especially in volume one, internally pages nice and clean, bindings sound, good condition , full calf, blindstamped rules front and back, 5 raised bands on spine with gilt titles in compartments , octavo, 11 x 17 cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete in 15 volumes. Morocco spines and corners over cloth. Raised bands to spines with gilt panels and lettering. Marbled endpapers. Boards marked and rubbed. Damage to head of spines in some volumes. Many plates darkened at edges. Scattered foxing. With 170 illustrations from the plates in Boydell's edition. Bindings firm. A Good set. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 12mo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete in 15 volumes. A. J. Valpy, 1832-1834; first of this edition thus, with no later printings indicated in any volume. Bound by Howell's of Liverpool in 3/4 maroon morrocco with marbled paper over boards, gilt top edges, lighter pink marbled end pages, gilt titling and borders on spines. Bindings are stamped "Howell Liverpool" on verso of front end page. Several illustrated plates throughout each volume, 170 in all, engraved from the art collected in John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, a key experience in the late-18th century Shakespeare revival in London. Bookplate of Kemper Hall fixed to each front paste-down. Originally the residence of Wisconsin Senator Charles Durkee, the Kenosha, WI mansion became an Episcopal girls' school in 1871 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. All bindings are tight and sturdy; marbled paper very lightly rubbed on boards of nearly every volume; five volumes have small abrasions to leather near head of spine, all show some amount of lighter rubbing or wear to extremities, gilt remains bright and bold on the whole; light to moderate amount of surface scratches in gilt top edges; illustrations and text very good throughout. A handsome set of this increasingly scarce illustrated edition. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: First Valpy edition of Shakespeare's complete works, intended to be "the most useful, ornamental, and economical edition" of his writing (p. vi). The publisher, Abraham John Valpy (1786-1854), hoped that he "might rival the fame of Aldus and Stephanus as a printer and editor of classical works. For many years he published, either under his own editing or under the supervision of some classical scholar, numerous works, especially in ancient literature" (ODNB). 15 volumes, small octavo (172 x 116 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt to second and third compartments, remaining compartments decorated in gilt with foliate sprigs enclosed in borders of flower and leaf tools, twin gilt rules to spines and covers, marbled sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 170 plates, after illustrations from John Boydell's edition, originally published between 1791 and 1805. Bookplate of Richard James Cross, possibly the railway official and banker (1841-1917), to front pastedowns, with his ownership stamp to first blanks; earlier ownership inscription to half-title of vol. 1 sometime erased. Extremities rubbed, a few corners lightly worn, contents evenly toned, occasional foxing to plates and facing pages, small damp stain to fore edge of vol. 2. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom