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Price: US$16.67 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Mechanische Beschädigung. Englisch
Seller: Bookbot, Prague, Czech Republic
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original green cloth, silver lettering, 7x9 5/8 inches, 560 pp, illustrated with black and white drawings. Good. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there, scuffed , ¼ inch fraying at head and foot of spine, front and rear hinges cracked, first few leaves detached, lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked, probably never really read. Literature
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Editions Thus. Hardbacks. Large 8vos. 27 cms by 19. About 2500 pages. Complete in 10 volumes published between 1904 and 1907. Original publisher's burgundy red buckram lettered gilt on spine with gilt vignette (coat of arms) on front cover. The Shakespeare Head Press's limited edition of Shakespeare's works with a different tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Number 874 of 1000 copies on handmade paper, edges uncut. Very slight foxing at prelims of a few frontispieces. Slight fading at spines, faint marking o/w decent very good desirable set. Very slight foxing at prelims of a few frontispieces. Slight fading at spines, faint marking o/w decent very good desirable set.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Shakespeare, William. the Works of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes. Shakespeare Head Press, 1904.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 10 vols. expanded to 20 vols. The red leather on spines has darkened. A few the vols. have a detached, but present front cover. The cloth part of the bindings has a beautiful floral decoration. A bit of rubbing to some of the leather.
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: 10 volumes. First Edition printed by the Shakespeare Head Press. Limited and Numbered, this being copy number 525. Illustrated with the Droeshout and Chandos portraits as frontispieces as well as the additional gravure frontispieces of known portraits of Shakespeare to every volume. 4to, handsomely bound in three-quarter emerald-green morocco over turquoise cloth covered boards, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with panels in gilt featuring double fillet border lines, corner tools and central ornamental tooling all in gilt, two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. The text-blocks and illustrations are all in good order, clean and fresh, and very handsome, the bindings have wear to the edges and tips, one board detached but easily repaired, an honest set, internally very pleasing, one portrait with a small water stain at a corner of the blank portion of the leaf. FIRST AND BEST EDITION PRODUCED BY THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON. The Shakespeare Head Press was the dream child of A. H. Bullen, who wished to produce beautiful editions of Shakespeares works-- set, printed and bound in the famed authors home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon. The press expanded significantly over the years and printed many wonderful editions by a plethora of writers. The books were printed for A.H. Bullen and F. Sidgwick at the press, in the house of Julius Shaw the poet's friend and one of the witnesses to his will. The text with essays by H.C. Beeching, Robert Bridges, Henry Davey, E.K. Chambers, J.J. Jusserand and M.H. Spielmann. The type was composed under the supervision of T.E. Summerton. The whole was printed by F.S. Cooper. The work was begun in July, 1904 and finished in January 1907. Colin Franklin, writing in THE PRIVATE PRESSES, says that in the years after the death of A. H. Bullen (the Press's founder), the Shakespeare Head Press "became the most mature and sophisticated of the private presses, producing some works in the grand manner which are a great pleasure to read and examine now" (p. 147). This set indeed is "in the grand manner," beautifully printed on fine paper, and very handsomely bound and presented. This is a pleasing set internally, showing the full effect of the beautiful Shakespeare Head Press printing of Shakespeare. The bindings have seen much better days but are still reasonably presentable.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Description: The Shakespeare Head Press's limited edition of Shakespeare's works, in attractive bindings and printed on handmade paper. With a different tissue-guarded frontispiece in every volume. Includes the Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, King John, King Richard the Second, The Two Parts of King Henry the Fourth, King Henry the Fifth, The First part of King Henry the Sixth, The Second and Third Part of King Henry the Sixth, King Richard the Third, King Henry the Eighth, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline. With watermarks to front blanks, titles and play titles in each volume. Volumes II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX of ten volumes. The Shakespeare Head Press was established in Stratford on Avon in 1904 by Elizabethan Scholar, editor and publisher Arthur Henry Bullen they are reknowed for the quality of their design and printing, working in the Morris tradition. In armorial half morocco bindings. Externally very attractive with just some shelfwear and marks to the boards. The hinges have been reinforced, just one is slightly strained but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound, beautifully bright and clean throughout due to excellent quality paper. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
SHAKESPEARE, William. THE WORKS (10 volumes). Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1904.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Lovely copy of the Shakespeare Head Press collection of his works, 10 volumes, limited to 1000 copies this #397, watermarked paper, bound by Maurin in red, half leather with elaborate gilt to spine. A sliver of leather missing head of spine Vol VIII, and some incidental edgewear here and there. Internals as new.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Description: The Edinburgh edition of the Henley Shakespeare, number 59 of 150 copies. Finely printed in large type and beautifully illustrated, this publication aims "to present our Shakespeare in stately yet convenient form" (advertisement). William Ernest Henley (18491903) was an accomplished British poet and literary critic, a prolific contributor of The Athenaeum and the Saturday Review, and editor of the Scot Observer. A friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, he was the inspiration for Stevenson's character Long John Silver in his Treasure Island. Henley begun editing Shakespeare in 1901 and continued until his death in 1903. 20 volumes, tall quarto. Original cream paper-backed green cloth, lettering and floral decoration in gilt to spine, Shakespeare's coat of arms in gilt to front covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved frontispieces, 7 with contemporary hand colouring, 58 engraved plates, title pages printed in red and black and with publisher's device. Small San Franciscan bookseller's ticket to rear pastedowns. Spines toned, spine ends and corners rubbed with a touch of wear, one volume with short tear at head of spine, some foxing to edges, endpapers, and occasionally to contents, otherwise generally bright and clean. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$8800.00 + shipping
Description: The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Brentanos, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 98. In fine condition. An exceptional set. English poet, playwright, and actor, William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His extant works consist of approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright to this day. Shakespeareâs early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies including Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth; and in his late phase wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$8840.00 + shipping
Description: 268 x 182 mm. (10 3/8 x 7 1/8"). 10 volumes. EXCELLENT CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), raised bands, spine panels with a British heraldic symbol (eagle, three lions, Tudor rose, or rampant lion), gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in two red buckram slipcases. Each volume with a frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard, printer's device on title and final pages. âVolumes I and X with a small, faint scratch near head of spine, volume VIII with three minute spots in text of two leaves, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and bright inside and out. This is a lovely copy of the publishing raison d'être of the Shakespeare Head Press, offered in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding with Elizabethan overtones in its spine decorations. The Shakespeare Head Press was established by Arthur Henry Bullen (1857-1920) at Stratford-on-Avon in 1904 for the express purpose of printing the first complete edition of Shakespeare to be published in the Bard's birthplace--an idea that he said came to him in a dream. In a move that linked his work to other printers of the Arts & Crafts movement, Bullen obtained equipment from William Morris' Kelmscott Press, including the older of the two presses on which the celebrated Works of Chaucer was printed. Ransom lists 20 titles issued by Bullen before his death. Afterwards, the press was acquired by a group headed by Oxford book dealer Basil Blackwell, and typographer Bernard Henry Newdigate took charge of production and printing. A further 72 privately printed titles were published between 1921 and 1941. Shakespeare Head had a distinguished output that deserves a rank in the second tier of English private presses along with the likes of Golden Cockerel and not much below Ashendene, Kelmscott, and Doves. Our set is distinguished by the work of one of the great 20th century English binderies. After studying under, and then working for, Douglas Cockerell, Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe founded their own bindery in 1901 and continued in a successful partnership until 1912. During that year, Francis drowned, and his brother, Alberto, who had been a central figure in producing the firm's vellum illuminated manuscripts, went over to Riviere. Despite these losses, the firm grew and prospered, employing a staff of 80 by the mid-1920s and becoming perhaps the most successful English bindery of the 20th century.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.