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William Shakespeare. The Works Of Shakespeare Vol. III. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1899.

Price: US$17.53 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1899. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Vol. III. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Tear to middle of single page, repaired with tape. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Shakespeare, William; Gollancz, Israel. The Works of Shakespeare: Volume Four-Twelfth Night/ the Winter's Tale/ Cymbeline. J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1899.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good. No Jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Very Good in blind-embossed green cloth. Light wear to boards, spine cloth split and fraying at top and foot, corners lightly bumped and exposed; white-out on front pastedown, ink name on half-title, light browning to text. Unpaginated, B&W illustrations.

Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

[Shakespeare, William] edited by Israel Gollancz. THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. (Temple Edition) Volume 8. J. M. Dent & Co, London, 1899.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited, numbered Larger Temple edition. Volume 8 only. Limited to 175 copies, this being #157. A Very Good + copy. 8vo., pages numbered by Act and scene. Bound in full vellum with gilt titles and design, with elaborately decorated spine. Numerous colored pates with tissue guards. Previous owner's handsome book plate on the front paste down. A beautiful edition, "with many illustrations, antiquarian and topographical". Printed on hand made paper, with scene and act in red on each page. Attractively wide margins. Light soiling to the white vellum boards. Volume 8 contains: The Tempest; Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; The Tragedy of Coriolanus. Edited by renown Shakespearean scholar, Israel Gollancz.

Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.

[Shakespeare, William] edited by Israel Gollancz. THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. (Temple Edition) Volume 1. J. M. Dent & Co, London, 1899.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited, numbered Larger Temple edition. Volume 1 only. Limited to 175 copies, this being #157. A Very Good + copy. 8vo., pages numbered by Act and scene. Bound in full vellum with gilt titles and design, with elaborately decorated spine. Numerous colored pates with tissue guards. Previous owner's handsome book plate on the front paste down. A beautiful edition, "with many illustrations, antiquarian and topographical". Printed on hand made paper, with scene and act in red on each page. Attractively wide margins. Light soiling to the white vellum boards. Volume 1 contains: The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor, and Measure for Measure. Edited by renown Shakespearean scholar, Israel Gollancz.

Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of. Edited by Israel Gollancz. London: J.M. Dent 1899-1912., 1899.

Price: US$156.02 + shipping

Description: "Larger Temple Shakespeare", 12 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in each volume - a couple in colour - plus a few other illustrations, including a folding panorama of London in 1616 in volume VI, one leaf with a marginal tear, some foxing to endpapers. Original green cloth, gilt spines, t.e.g., minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise a very good set.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

William Shakespeare; Israel Gallancz, editor. Works of Shakespear. J. M. Dent, London, 1899.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Half Leather. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. Complete set of 12 volumes of The Larger Temple Shakespeare With Many Illustrations Antiquarian and Topographical. Half blue morocco (faded to brown on spines); five raised bands; titling and floral decoration in compartments. top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Portsmouth Athenaeum to feps; An attractive and solidly bound set with the exception of volume 10 which has a cracked front board. Half of the volumes are mottled on the cloth part of the boards.

Seller: Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.

SHAKESPEARE, William. WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Israel Gollancz. 11 of 12 vols.. J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1899.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Duodecimos, half crimson calf, raised bands, extra glt spines: bound by Morrell Bindery, London for E. P. Dutton Co. in New York. 1899 - 1904. This is the text of the Cambridge Edition, with textual changes by Sir Israel Gollancz. Vol. 12 is The Sonnets and Poems, with a biography of the Bard, and Notes. Extensively illustrated in black & white, and color. Note: lacks vol. 8 ( containing Henry 8, Troilus, & Coriolanus). Illustrated with Plates, cuts. [ Jaggard, SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY, p. 555 ].

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William; Israel Gollancz, editor. The Works of Shakespeare, 12-volume set. J.M. Dent and Company, 1899.

Price: US$975.88 + shipping

Description: Hardback, 12-volume set, with decorative imitation leather paper and ornamental gilt around board edges; leather spine, gilt titles with some volumes experiencing cracking or small chips; all sides of book’s page edges are dressed gold gilt. All hinges show use-wear. Inside, front and rear end papers marbled. Black and red text. Numerous engravings including color engravings with tissue guard. Cambridge edition text used in this "The Larger Temple Shakespeare" issue. Printed by Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston.

Seller: BookDepart, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William - Israel Gollancz [Editor]. The Works of Shakespeare (12 Bde., compl.) (The Larger Temple Shakespeare). With many illustrations, antiquarian and topographical. With glossary and notes.. London, J.M. Dent & Co., -1900, 1899.

Price: US$1508.45 + shipping

Description: 8°, je 1 Fronti., ca. 500 S., einige farb. Abb, einige Textabb., HLdr. goldgeprägt., Kopfgoldschnitt, Min. berieben, minimal stockfleckig, schönes Exemplar. Th edition on hand-made paper is limited in five hundret copies for America, of which this is Nr. 313.- Sir Israel Gollancz, FBA (1863-1930) was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930. He edited the "Temple" Shakespeare, a uniform edition of the complete works in pocket size volumes which was the most popular Shakespeare edition of its day. In 1916, as Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, he also edited A book of homage to Shakespeare, an anthology of responses to Shakespeare from scholars, thinkers and other prominent figures from around the world. 12000 gr. Schlagworte: Gesamtausgaben, Literatur Engl.

Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland

SHAKESPEARE, William. Edited by Israel Gollancz. The Works of Shakespeare. In Twelve Volumes. With Many Illustrations, Antiquarian and Topographical. LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 175 COPIES, ON HAND-MADE PAPER, BOUND IN FULL VELLUM GILT.. J. M. Dent & Co. London. - 1900, 1899.

Price: US$2600.34 + shipping

Description: J. M. Dent & Co. 1899 - 1900. Complete in 12 volumes. Large paper edition, printed on hand-made paper and Limited to 175 sets for England, of which this is set number 93. The Larger temple Edition. All volumes uniformly bound by publishers in stunning full vellum with gilt decorations to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, other page edges uncut. Coloured frontis with tissue guard to each volume. Illustrated throughout. Endpapers browned and edges foxed. Slight spotting to occsional pages and slight signs of use to covers otherwise a remarkably clean set. SCARCE.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom