Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Description: Octavo; Limited edition, 500 copies on hand-made paper; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, tan with tanned title label at top, black print; Boards in tan cloth, wear to corners and spine caps, peripheral tanning; Text block has grey-tinted top edge, deckled edges, tanning to endpapers and deckled edges, owner label on front pastedown, else clean and tight; 97 pages. 1324758. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.57 + shipping
Description: Five hundred copies of this edition on hand-made paper. The Cambridge Shakespeare. Reliure toile. 97 pages. 18x26cm. A toute marge.
Seller: Loïc Simon, Blaison-Saint Sulpice, FR, France
Winter, William. Shakespeare's England.. New York, Macmillan and Co., 1893.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: New edition, revised, with illustrations. -- Publisher's ads at rear for all the works of this author, with synopses. Previous owner custom bookplate with coat-of-arms style, Henry A. Childs. -- Hardcover, dark cloth with elaborate gilt design over front-cover and spine, AEG all-edges-gilt. Condition: near fine (cover a touch dulled).
Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The spine and edges have fading and discoloration. There is some mild foxing on the end papers and light tanning of the pages. The title labels on the spines of the books have some wear. ; 500 copies of this edition on hand-made paper were printed in 1893
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete in exquisite full leather binding. 20 volume Cambridge Shakespeare. A limited edition of 500 copies printed on handmade paper. Macmillan and Co, London and New York. Full maroon leather (crushed Levant) with raised cords on the spine, gold lettering. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Each volume measures slightly larger than 7 x 10.25. Volume 1 contains the prefaces to both first and second editions. This set printed 1893-1895. Wide margins and well printed. Spine is faded a tone darker than the boards, but all bindings complete and in very good condition. The binding is not signed, which is unusual for work as fine as this. (The set comes from a collection with other sets finely bound at Chicago's Monastery Hill Bindery.) Previous owner's name stamped in gold at the base of the spines "J.C. Peasley" who seems to have been a Chicago banker at the turn of the century. 40 volumes (bound in 20) with all of Shakespeare's plays and a few collaborations and speculations at the end. Please email to request photos or with questions (I will spare you the list of plays, since we all know what they are). Sits on 28" of shelf space. Extra shipping will be required to get it safely through the mail. This is the nicest set of Shakespeare we've seen in a long while. (shelved in the glass case with sets and fine bindings).
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$16040.82 + shipping
Description: Edition De Luxe of the Cambridge Shakespeare, one of 500 unnumbered sets only, printed on handmade paper with each play in a separate volume, here very handsomely bound. The set is from the library of the American tin tycoon William Bateman Leeds (1861-1908), with his bookplate in every volume. The Cambridge Shakespeare, first published between 1863 and 1866, has "become the standard text. the introductions contain the safest guide as to authorities for the text and the notes form a complete apparatus criticus of the text. it is a monument of editorial judgement and accurate scholarship" (Ward & Waller, p. 280). A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds., The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. V, 1964. 40 volumes, royal octavo (256 x 172 mm). Contemporary green morocco by Zaehnsdorf for C. Scribner's Sons, spines lettered in gilt, concentric gilt panelling to covers, gilt turn-ins, brown silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Title pages in red and black. Spines lightly sunned, contents partly unopened, else a fine set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom