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Price: US$18.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume V1 not V please note on green covers pocket edition
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small Previous owner's personal bookplate. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Knight, Charles. William Shakespeare: A Biography. [Charles Knight], [London], 1843.
Price: US$56.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 544 pages, comprising volumes I and II., illustrated. The book has been rebound and the marbled boards are lightly rubbed. The leather spine with is gilt print is lightly knocked at the head and tail, the latter announcing in gilt print that it belongs to the "Beechworth Athaneum"; and the boards' edges chipped. The only other evidence of library ownership is a small circular "Beechworth Public Library Stamp" on the head of the title page and again on the tail of page 544. The back end paper and back paste down are lightly shelf staines and both the front and back hinge exposed, though the binding remains solid. The book offers no publisher, just the 1843 publishing date. A nice copy. "Charles Knight (15 March 1791 - 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and established the Local Government Chronicle." (Wikipedia) Apart from this biography of Shakespeare, he also published from 1838-1841 his Pictorial Shakespeare, which "leaned almost exclusively on the First Folio for its textual authority." (Shakespeare Brasileiro)
Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
. The Works of William Shakspere, Volume 1-12. Charles Knight & Co., London, U.K., 1843.
Price: US$61.29 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No dust jacket. Hardcover. 12-volume set. Introductory volume and volume of Shakespeare's poetry were published in 1847. Volumes I-X include all of Shakespeare's plays. Leather-bound spines and leading corners. Marbled boards, spines and leading corners are very worn and rubbed, with many small abrasions, stains and surface marks. Page block face of Vol. VI has a small dark stain; that of VoI.IX large dark stain. Marbled endpapers and page block. Pages are quite grubby and sunned, with considerable age-related staining. Front hinges of Introductory and Poetry Volumes, and Vols. I, II, VIII and X, are cracked, and binding is rather loose in these volumes as a result. Small tear to the front endpaper of Vol. IX. Ink staining across spine foot and back board of Vol. X. Text is clear. AF
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Knight, Charles. William Shakespeare, A Biography. Charles Knight & Company, London, UK, 1843.
Price: US$243.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A two volume work contained in a single volume. This book formed a companion to the Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespere. Includes several engravings within the text. 544pp. Tan calf boards with gilt decoration to edges and spine. Spine has two black morocco title plates. Bookplates on spine have largely peeled off. Light gouges on front board, rubbing to spine and edges of board. Marbled end papers and all page edges. Bookplate on fixed endpaper of barrister William Dashwood Fane (1816-1902). Occasional foxing to some pages. Boards and text-block tight and in very good order.
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom