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Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Description: Robert Tyas, 1843. Hardback, 4to, [v], unpaginated after p.488. A little spotted, Contemporary full calf, rubbed, lacking spine label. A fair copy
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: Robert Tyas, 1843. Hardback, 4to, [v],xxxii,602pp, illust. A little spotted. Contemporary full calf, spine labels, a little rubbed. A fair copy
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: Robert Tyas, 1843. Hardback, 4to, [v],570pp, illust. Slightly spotted. Contemporary full calf, spine labels, a little rubbed. A fair copy
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of Shakespere Three volume set. Robert Tyas, London, 1843.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Description: Three volume set , the Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. " With a memoir , and essay on [Shakespeare's] genius, by Barry Cornwall " , and " Annotations and introductory remarks on the plays, by many distinguished writers " . Internally very good subject to slight browning, bindings sound, a little grubbiness to the edges of text-blocks. The elaborately decorated covers are reasonably bright, the spines have some fraying to the extremities and with two volumes the joins with the boards are partly slit Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$560.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. 3 volumes. 27 cm x 17 cm bound in 4's. Original ornately blind-stamped brown ribbed cloth with gilt centrepiece to upper and lower covers, ornate gilt decorated spines. Text in double columns, profusely illustrated throughout, illustrated title-page to each play. Vol 1: Memoir and Essay, Comedies. Covers scuffed and rubbed, corners bumped, little denting to board edges, tanning to endpapers, spine ends started; Vol. 2: Tragedies. Light denting to board edges, corners bruised, tanning to endpapers, a few light pencil marks on pages 26-36; Vol. 3: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets. Covers very lightly soiled, corners bruised, light denting to edges, tanning to endpapers. Overall, a wonderful, bright set in the original gilt decorated cloth.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
William Shakespeare; Barry Cornwall. The Works of Shakspere. Robert Tyas, London, 1843.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely illustrated collection of the works of William Shakespeare, with wood engravings by Kenny Meadows. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout the text designed by Kenny Meadows.Ownership inscription of Charles M. Bishop to the front endpaper.Volume I contains a memoir, an essay and his comedies, beingThe Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, As You Life It, Winter's TaleandAll's Well that Ends Well.Volume II contains his tragedies, being Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar,andAnthony and Cleopatra.Volume III contains his historical plays, sonnets and poems, beingKing John, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, King Henry the Fifth, King Henry the Sixth, King Richard the Thirdand King Henry the Eighth. In a half crushed morocco binding. Externally very smart; slight occasional rubbing to the joints, raised bands and the heads and tails of the spine and extremities. Ownership inscription to the front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom