Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$186.82 + shipping
Description: 75, (56) S. Flexibler Original-Pergamentband mit goldgeprägten Fileten und ornamentaler Goldverzierung auf dem Vorderdeckel sowie goldgepr. Rückentitel. 4to. Eins von 1000 numerierten und signierten Exemplaren: "One of the thousand copies of this Facsimile have been printed of which this is number 698". Handsigniert von Sidney Lee. Sehr schönes, fleckenfreies Exemplar. Teilweise unaufgeschnitten. Lediglich Vorsatzbl. etw. gebr. sonst völlig fleckenfrei. Bänder fehlen.
Seller: Akad.Bhdlg.& Antiqu. Hierana, Erfurt, Germany
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1905. Limited Edition. Signed by editor Sidney Lee and numbered 732 of 1000 copies on colophon at front. Facsimiles of the respective unique First Edition copies in the Malone Collection at the Bodleian Library. Quarto (10.25" x 8.25"); 75, [54 facsimile], 56, [94], 57, [64], 71, [80], 48, 6, [70]. Most facsimile pages still uncut along top edge. Rebacked in later brown leather with earlier calf retained. Red leather title card to spine with gilt lettering. New endpapers. Older leather chipped along edges, with some general scuffs and smudges. A few introductory pages to Lucrece with spots of toning from a previously laid-in paper, else pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Sir Sidney Lee was an assistant editor for the Dictionary of National Biography, contributing around 800 articles to the collection, including the entry on Shakespeare which he developed into a book-length biography. He edited Oxford's facsimile edition of the First Folio (1902), a series of other facsimiles of extant editions (such as this volume), and eventually a Complete Works of Shakespeare. Though only a few poems from The Passionate Pilgrim and parts of Pericles are attributed to Shakespeare, Lee included them in their context of having been originally printed with the first edition of the sonnets.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$493.83 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of three works by William Shakespeare, first quarto editions reproduced in facsmile bound in uniform Bumpus bindings. With half titles. Number 673 of one thousand copies, originally released in a set of five volumes. This set without 'Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis' and 'Sonnets.' Limitation leaf only present to 'Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis,' this set without signature of Sidney Lee.Reproducing the first editions in facsimile. With half titles.Comprised of:'The Passionate Pilgrim', 1599 from the copy in the Christie Miller Library at Britwell;'Shakespeare's Pericles' 1609 from the copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library;'Shakespeare's Lucrece' 1594 from the copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library.Bookplate from Rex Whistler from 'The Book Society' signed John Cohen to front blank leaves. In uniform half calf binding signed Bumpus over marbled boards and endpapers. Externally smart with light rubbing to spine and boards. Light markings to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Number 229 of 1000 copies bound and signed by the bibliographer Sydney Lee. Full vellum with gilt to spines and boards, measuring 250 x 200mm. Boards splayed, with front and rear ties lacking. Offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean and unmarked, with illustrations and text from the Malone Collection of the Bodleian Library. Originally issued in a set of five volumes, reproducing the exceptional Malone Collection copies of Shakespeare's first editions. "With Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare launched his career as a poet. The poem is a minor epic, a genre that many poets of the time chose for their first efforts.within this genre, Venus and Adonis was so successful that it remained Shakespeare's most popular published work throughout his lifetime" (Folger).
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full vellum in gilt decorated boards and gilt spine titling. Uncut pages. Tie ribbons intact. Illustrated. No. 510 of 1000. Signed by Sidney Lee on bastard title page. 4to. Near Fine.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete five volume set. Limited to 1,000 copies, of which all these are 584. Signed by Sidney Lee in Venus and Adonis under the limitation. Uniformed full vellum with gilt detailing to front covers. Lacking some original ties. The facsimile leaves of the first editions are found after the paginated introductions. Excepted warping to limp vellum boards. Toning to endpapers. A clean set with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 8.5 x 10 in each (22 x 25.5 cm)
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1995.00 + shipping
Description: Uniformly 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 1000 signed by Sidney Lee in the Venus And Adonis volume. Pagination's respectively reflect Lee's Introduction and Bibliography as per titles noted: 75, 57, 55, 71, 48 with 6 page list of Subscribers. The collotype facsimile leaves of the first editions "which found no place in the first folio" [JAGGARD] of the original Shakespeare text appear following the pagination's noted previously. With half-titles, all five volumes the provenance of William Andrews Clark, Jr. together with his red leather gilt decorated and lettered bookplates on the inside front covers. The Library at UCLA bears his name. Lacks original ties, boards are splayed, endpapers toned, but all covers are bright and clean. Orig. full vellum, gilt front cover panel with arabesques at the corners. Very good. 5 vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5925.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: COSWAY STYLE (BAYNTUN-RIVIERE) SHAKESPEARES VENUS AND ADONIS. LUCRECE. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM. SONNETS. Pericles. - Facsimiles of the original printings Published Oxford, Clarendon Press 1905 5 volumes bound together. Edited by Sidney Lee, signed by him on the limitation leaf. 24.5x19 cm (9¾x7½"). bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full Morocco, elaborately ruled in gilt, inset color portrait, raised bands, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, inner Morocco panels, silk moiré endpapers, gilt dentelles, slipcase. No. 634 of 1000 copies. Photographic facsimiles with commentary of these five early printings of William Shakespeare, being the first editions of each text, issued between 1593 and 1609.
Seller: E.C. Rare Books., Vancouver, BC, Canada