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Wright, W.. The Works of William Shakespeare (Volume 2). Macmillan, 1891.
Price: US$7.05 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Both the cover and spine show signs of wear. The spine is damaged slightly. The pages are age-toned but are binded tighly. The corners on both covers are bumped. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.89 + shipping
Description: In 16°; piena pelle con fregi impressi in oro al piatto e tit. oro al dorso, tagli dorati (lievi abrasioni e segni d'uso, lieve menda a una cerniera); pp. VIII-1138; testo su due colonne, su carta di riso. Leggere fioriture a qualche pagina in discreto esemplare.
Seller: Pietro Panizzi Libraio, Giulianova, Italy
SHAKESPEARE, William.. Works of William Shakespeare.. Macmillan and Co., London, 1891.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Edited by William Aldis Wright. (The Cambridge Shakespeare.) 9 vols. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Third Edition. Minor wear to bindings at head and tail of spines.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of William Shakespeare. Macmillan, London, 1891.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 9 volumes, tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine (top and bottom of spines neatly reinforced). London: Macmillan, 1891. Very good (+). The Cambridge Shakespeare, third edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nine-volume set, complete. Year: 1891-1893. While published by Macmillan (London/New York), fine print at verso of the FFEPs indicates these volumes were bound by Ringer for Chicago's A. C. McClurg. Contemporary blue half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Covers have light to moderate rubbing, and moderate to heavy edgewear including spots of fraying to edges. Leather is faded to teal at spines. Spines square. Bindings sound. Gilt marbled paper endsheets. Tiny closed tears at fore-edges of ffep and fly leaf of volume seven. Volume eight has a few roughly cut pages. Faint sticker residue at top of ffep's of volumes one and seven; small 'p' penciled next to the date at each title page, and a small penciled hatchmark in the bottom margin of each table of contents, except in volume one. Volume one also has penciled notes at the verso of rfep, and there is a small splatter stain in the bottom margin of page IX (in the preface) of volume four. Interiors else clean; pages toned, texts unmarked. Contents: (1) The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; (2) Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer-Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; (3) The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well that Ends Well; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale; (4) King John; King Richard II; King Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; King Henry V; (5) King Henry VI, Parts 1-3; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; (6) Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; (7) Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; (8) King Lear; Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; (9) Pericles; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and the Turtle.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$832.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9 Volumes. 8vo. titles in red & black. Untrimmed in original cloth (some chipping to spine ends, few corners frayed, dampstain to front cover of Vol. VII). Second Edition of the 'Cambridge Shakespeare'.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891, Third Cambridge Edition (Vol I), 1891 Second Edition (Vol II-IV), 1892 Second Edition (Vol V-VIII), 1893 Second Edition (Vol IX). A nicely bound set of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare edited by William Aldis WRIGHT. Third edition of the Cambridge Shakespeare. Nine octavo volumes. Handsomely bound by Wells of Winchester (stamp to the reverse of the front paste down) in half maroon morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines panelled and lettered in gilt with four gilt lined compartments, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Nicely bound volumes in half leather with gilt decoration to the spines, marble paper pastedowns. William Aldis Wright (1831 - 1914), was an English writer and editor. The Works of William Shakespeare (1863-6), edited by William George Clark, with at first W. Aldis Wright and later John Glover as collaborators, was published in nine volumes by Macmillan, but printed at the University Press, so that it became known as the Cambridge Shakespeare. This important edition was based on a thorough collation of the four Folios and of all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, and of subsequent editions and commentaries (preface), so that in textual matters it constitutes a virtual variorum. Prefaces provide accounts of the early textual history of each of the works, and the volumes include the texts of first quartos of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, as well as the quartos relating to Henry V, The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI), and Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI). Clark and Wright used the Cambridge edition as the basis for the influential one-volume Globe Shakespeare. Provenance: from the library of Robert Arthur Johnson with his plate to the front of each volume. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles to spine with some wear and marks. Joints very good condition solid. Corners good condition gently worn and bumped. Boards good condition worn, with minor marks, marbled paper covered boards. Page edges good condition all edge gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition solid. Paste downs good condition marbled, with bookplate for Robert Arthur Johnson to the front. End papers good condition marbled. Title page good condition gently tanned. Pages good condition gently tanned. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1891 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$1665.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second edition of the well regarded 'Wright' edition of Shakespeare. 1891 (Vols I - IV) 1892 (Vols V - VIII) 1893 (Vol IX). Finely bound volumes in half leather with gilt decoration to the spines, marble paper pastedowns and marbled foredge. William Aldis Wright (1831 - 1914), was an English writer and editor. This is the second and best edition of the very well regarded 'Wright' Shakespeare. "The Works of William Shakespeare (1863-6), edited by William George Clark, with at first W. Aldis Wright and later John Glover as collaborators, was published in nine volumes by Macmillan, but printed at the University Press, so that it became known as the Cambridge Shakespeare. This important edition was based on a "thorough collation of the four Folios and of all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, and of subsequent editions and commentaries" (preface), so that in textual matters it constitutes a virtual variorum. Prefaces provide accounts of the early textual history of each of the works, and the volumes include the texts of first quartos of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, as well as the quartos relating to Henry V, The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI), and Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI). Clark and Wright used the Cambridge edition as the basis for the influential one-volume Globe Shakespeare. Both the Cambridge and the Globe editions were revised in 1891" (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare) He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1888 became vice-master of the college. He was one of the editors of the Journal of Philology from its foundation in 1868, and was secretary to the Old Testament revision company from 1870 to 1885. He edited the plays of Shakespeare published in the "Clarendon Press" series (186897), also with W. G. Clark the "Cambridge" Shakespeare (1863-1866; 2nd ed. 1891-1893) and the "Globe" edition (1864). He published a facsimile of the Milton manuscript in the Trinity College library (1899), and edited Milton's poems with critical notes (1903). He was the intimate friend and literary executor of Edward FitzGerald, whose Letters and Literary Remains he edited in 1889. This was followed by the Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1895), his Miscellanies (1900), More Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1901), and The Works of Edward FitzGerald (7 vols., 1903). He edited the metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester (1887), Generydes (1878) for the Early English Text Society, and other texts. Finely bound volumes in half leather with gilt decoration to the spines, marble paper pastedowns and marbled foredge. The bindings are tight and firm, although the rear outer hinge of Volume III is starting at the bottom. There is some wear to the extremities including fading to the spine of Volume IX as seen (could be restained to match better), some rubbing to the edges of the boards and a few faint marks to some of the boards. There is some evidence of past damp staining to bottom of the rear board of Volume II and the top of the rear board of Volume III. Internally the pages are generally clean and bright with the occasional spot and light spotting to the endpapers. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom