Price: US$180.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small demy8vo, tissue guarded portrait frontispiece, [x], clxxxi, 233; [iv], 407; [iv], 454; [iv], 423; [iv], 505; [iv] 545; [iv], 476; [iv], 470 p. Forty-three portraits and illustrations complete. Contemporary brown half-calf, marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt lettered on red lettering pieces, all edges tinted red. Light tanning and foxing to the plate edges otherwise a very clean presentable and very good plus set with the armorial bookplates of Edward Bensley Gardner on the front pastedowns. The title continues: with a life of the author, and a selection of notes, critical, historical, explanatory, and glossarial selected from the editions of Rowe, Pope, Johnson and Steevens, Malone and other eminent commentators to which are added, the prefaces of Rowe, Pope, and Johnson.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$385.91 + shipping
Description: , the works of Shakespeare in 8 volumes, illustrated with 40 monochrome steel engravings across all volumes, first volume also with 3 portraits of Shakespeare and with prefaces by Rowe, Pope and Johnson along with a Life of Shakespeare and other articles on his works First Edition , very minor wear to spines, wear and marking to boards, generally pages clean with some spotting in places, front and rear prelims usually foxed, plates often foxed slightly and sometimes stained/tanned, overall a nice collection in very good condition , full calf, gilt borders on front and rear, gilt rules and floral decoration on spines, gilt titles and volume numbers to black leather title labels on spines, , octavo, 22 x 14cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom