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Price: US$16.04 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Knight's Cabinet Edition with Additional Notes, small hard cover blue cloth bds, gilt lily of the valley to upper bd, faded gilt lettering to spine, Fair, cloth splitting at spine hinges, rubbed at spine ends and edges, corners bumped, surf. scuffing, contents clean, hinges a little fragile inside, '10p' on Midsummer Nights Dream title pge, pp368. Includes A Midsummer Nights Dream, Taming of The Shrew, Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing.
Seller: Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, United Kingdom
. William Shakespeare & Henry Howard Collected Poems 1856 lovely leather book. , 1856.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Old Books, 19th Century Books, Leather Books, Collected Poetry, British Poets, William Shakespeare, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey). The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and the Earl of Surrey. Published 1856, Edinburgh by James Nichol.316 pages. Text in English. Attractive antiquarian 1/2 leather binding, raised bands, gilt compartment decorations, gilt title lettering, marbled covers. Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Binding gently age worn but still appealing, leather and joints slightly rubbed but still supple, remains overall very attractive as an object. Text block paper is gently age toned as typical, internally book remains mostly clean, tight and sound. A book which has been taken care of but may/ does not look like new. Still attractive on the shelf. Book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in rather nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws seem easy to overlook or forgive. Please review photos for more detailed attempt to present this book as it survives. We often over-describe any flaws that many sellers would not even bother to mention since most people would overlook them as minor and unworthy of comment. Many people tell us the books they receive from us are nicer in person than they appears on the screen. We want you to be clear about what you are buying, so we take numerous photos and try to describe it openly and honestly. Book Measures c. 9" H x 5 3/4" W.[B11682].
Seller: RareMapsandBooks, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.83 + shipping
Description: 150mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 4200pp. Numerous b/w plates and vignettes. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed with some marks. Wear and chipping to spine ends. Occasional foxing within. Heraldic bookplates to front pastedowns Blue/gilt embossed hardback cloth cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: , each volume illustrated with a portrait of Shakespeare on the title page, each play with an illustrated title page and often with small vignettes at the end of Acts, Knight's Cabinet Edition , some wear to corners of boards in most volumes, generally pages clean with edges often slightly tanned, overall an excellent set in very good condition , half calf and marbeld paper, 5 raised bands on spine with gilt decoration in compartments, gilt titles to red leather title label on spine, all page edges and endpapers marbeld, , small octavo, 14 x 9.5 cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1058.28 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 182 x 115 mms., pp. viii, 416; viii, 424, fine inscribed copy to Eton schoolboy, bound in full polished calf, gilt rules on borders, spines ornately gilt in compartments, green morocco titling labels, olive morocco numbering labels, marbled end-papers and edges. A fine set with the presentation inscription on the recto of the front free end-paper in volume 1, "Evelyn, Henry, Villebois, Burnaby/ with the best wishes of his/ friend and Schoolfellow/ Stewart, J, C. Ducket./ On his leaving Eton/ Election 1864." The author George Walter Thornbury (1828-1876) is best known for his two-volume biography of the great painter J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). As William Charles Mark Kent said in the DNB, Thornbury's "most important independent publication was his 'Life of J. M. W. Turner,' from original letters and papers (2 vols. 1861). He wrote the whole of it under the watchful observation of Mr. Ruskin; and, as Thornbury himself remarked to the present writer, it was 'very much like working bareheaded under a tropical sun!' ". The present Shakespearean work was written some years prior to Thornbury's labouring under Ruskin's daunting gaze. This set of Shakspere's England (1856) is finely bound, is in fine condition, and has a playful inscription from one Victorian Etonian to another Victorian Etonian, with such a profuse use of commas that it must involve some sort of private joke. Ignoring the commas for a moment, the inscription reads, "Evelyn Henry Villebois Burnaby / with the best wishes of his / friend & Schoolfellow / Steuart J C Duckett. / On his leaving Eton / Election 1864." Born into an important land-owning Irish family, Duckett of Duckett's Grove, in county Carlow, Ireland, the presenter of the set was Steuart James Charles Duckett (1847-1915). After Eton, he became a member of the 13th Hussars. Later, he was High Sheriff of County Carlow, and the Hon. Secretary of the Carlow and Island Hounds, as well as being the founder of the Irish Counties Polo Club Union. The recipient of the set was Evelyn Henry Villebois Burnaby (1841-1924). After Eton, he became a clergyman and legal writer. He wrote the popular book Memories of Famous Trials (1907). Also a travel writer, he detailed his traversal of the nation in A Ride from Land's End to John o'Groats (1893). It is rare to find an example of what is called an "Eton leaving book" which is so early, so finely bound, and remains in such fine condition -- as well as having a fine inscription. An exemplary relic from the Victorian Age.
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom