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Description: The Plays of William Shakespeare Volume the Tenth Containing King Henry VI Part II King henry VI Part III Dissertation & c King Richard III 705pp marbled boards wear to covers still attached but weak hinges.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.)
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good
Description: The Plays of William Shakespeare The Plays of William Shakespeare Volume the Fifth Containing Midsummer Nights Dream. Love's Labour Lost. Merchant of Venice marbled boards wear to covers still attached but weak hinges.foxing wear and tear and staining to endpapers( removed but complete We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.)
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fourth Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 23.5cm by 15cm. pp 10,000+. Bound in red lacquered cloth, over papered boards with original publisher's printed spine labels. Three engraved plates in volume 1, four folding plates in volume 2, and one folding plate in volume 8, as called for. Sound, presentable set with clean text. Neat name on front endpapers with some slight wear at spines, slight nicking and slight chipping. Occasional looseness of a few boards but holding well with very slight foxing to plates.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The fifteen volumes in contemporary leather, with the four plates called for including the large fold-out of Morris-dancers at end of vol. 8. Spines darkened; vol. 5 and 10 lacking lower spine label; vol. 9, 14, 15 lacking both spine labels. Splitting to a few joints, but none is tender: bindings sound, hinges secure; customary rubbing to extremities. Foxing to first few and final few leaves, and to plates; contents otherwise clean. A very good unsophisticated set of this useful edition.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: Period strait-grained red morocco, spines simply gilt with title, author, and three central devices, no raised bands. Bookplates to each pastedown, some mild darkening, mostly to plates, some rubbing to extremities, spines darkened a shade, tiny chips to head of a few volumes, overall very good to near fine with no cracking to any hinges or joints. Fourth edition thus, Revised and Augmented.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$3648.31 + shipping
Description: 4th Edition. 15 vols. with 151 engraving plates, 16 woodcuts-illusts(in text), & 5 folding plates(4 tables, 1 illusts). full old calf. spine rubbed and faded. inner-joint sl.tender.
Seller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$3695.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The sought after Johnson-Steevens edition of the collected plays of Shakespeare, a nice set complete with illustrations, including folding plates. Complete in fifteen volumes.The fourth edition of this set.A sought after edition of the plays of Shakespeare, edited with extensive commentary by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.Volume I is illustrated with three plates.Volume II is illustrated with four folding tables.Volume VIII is illustrated with one folding plate of Morris Dancers.Collated, complete.In 1765, Johnson and Steevens produced the first notable scholarly analysis of Shakespeare, and were pivotal in elevating the Bard's reputation to the heights it has occupied since. This work was a milestone in Shakespearean scholarship and still very highly regarded.Johnson held a lifelong fascination with Shakespeare, the bard being the most quoted author in his 'Dictionary of the English Language'. However, Johnson had only a slight hand in this work, the bulk falling to noted Shakespearean commentator George Steevens.This 1793 edition is considered to be the best, being revised and expanded by Steevens, and was the last edition to involve him directly.Armorial bookplate to the front paste downs. In a full straight grain morocco binding. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Spines are a little faded with light surface cracks. A little light rubbing to the spines, joints, and extremities, resulting in a small amount of loss of leather to the joints of the first three volumes. Some light marks to the boards. Mark to the head of the front board of Volume III. Small puncture mark to the tail of the rear board of Volume IX, two to the rear board of Volume XV. Rear hinge of Volume I is tightly bound. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned with some spots. Tidemark to the endpapers, and first and last few pages of Volume I, and a couple of other pages of text in Volume I. Tidemark to the text block of Volume II. Tidemark to the endpapers and first and last few pages of Volume III. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$4235.00 + shipping
Description: 15 volumes, 8vo., EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with about 145 engraved plates by S. and E. Harding, Millton Park stamp to each volume, occasional browning and off-setting, mostly to margins and verso of plates, near-contemporary straight-grained light brown morocco, all edges gilt, a little rubbed and bumped at extremities, otherwise a very good and readable set. While still containing various Prefaces, Essays and Criticisms, in short all the requisite scholastic Gravitas that one would wish for in a serious edition, this one has the added interest and allure of the engraved plates and a 'Historical Account of the English Stage' that not only gives a history of its development but features some of the actors of the time such as Richard Burbadge, described as; 'the most celebrated tragedian of our author's time.' There are also chapters on the learning of Shakespeare's writing, as well as commendatory verses or poems on Shakespeare by various poets. Aesthetically pleasing in every respect, in near-contemporary bindings. Shakespeare's works have also found themselves to be the subject of abridging, censoring and banning. the most famous example is the 'bowdlerisation' of the bards plays. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician created a "family friendly" version of Shakespeare's works. 'Family Shakespeare' was published in 1818. Bowdler's editing had cut 90% out of the stories and made a mockery of some of the greatest prose in the English language. Also banned In 1966 under Mao Tse-Tung's 'Cultural Revolution'.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$7699.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 15 volumes octavo 9x6 inches, handsomely leather bound in a simple but splendid 19th century full blue morocco, all edges gilt with yellow endpapers. An old catalogue entry saying bound by C. Lewis. Complete. ILLUSTRATED WITH 12 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS ON THE TITLES and one wash drawing, plus numerous extra plates on India paper and a folding plate of Morris-Dancers. Fourth edition with notes By Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The watercolours are period or near period with the date of publication. The binding is in superb condition. A lovely eighteenth century edition with original watercolours. With the vellum bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson 1775-1856 - a British lawyer, literary antiquary, collector and editor. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club (a legendary club for important bibliophiles).
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom