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	1 RACKHAM.ARTHUR.Illustrates.; SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. William Heinemann.London.,1908  FIRST RACKHAM EDITION.4to.Colour frontis and thirty nine colour plates,mounted onto thicker paper with printed border and with a printed tissue guard.Publishers oatmeal cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine.Square illustration stamped in gilt to middle of front board.Apart from some minor foxing to the blank endpapers and a couple of spots to fore edge this is a lovely bright,clean copy.Scarce in this condition.A near fine copy of this beautiful book.Rackham at his very best.:  Price: 800.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	2 ROBINSON.WILLIAM HEATH.Illustrates.; SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Constable and Company.London.,1914  FIRST EDITION.4to (11.4 x 9.2 inches).Twelve full colour plates,mounted within a beige five line ruled border.Each plate with the title printed below the border.32 fine line drawings,some full page.Lovely recent binding of Full dark blue morocco,Spine with raised bands,gilt.Decorative gilt border on boards.Top edge gilt.:  Price: 450.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	3 AYSCOUGH.Rev.SAMUEL.; SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM. An Index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakspeare. Calculated to point out the different meanings to which the words are applied. John Stockdale.London.,1790  FIRST EDITION.Large 8vo.672pp.8pp of adverts.Tall untrimmed copy in recent half brown calf binding.Spine with five raised bands,gilt.Red title label,Gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Small stain to top of first few pages otherwise a very good copy.:  Price: 225.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	4 STOTHARD.THOMAS.Illustrates.; SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM. SHAKESPEARES SEVEN AGES OF MAN ILLUSTRATED. W.Bromley,Hammersmith,London.,1799  FIRST EDITION.Folio.(17.4 x 11.2 inches).14pp,9 pages of plates.An early issue of this work,with paper watermarked 1796.Stipple engraved,hand coloured title page and seven full page,hand coloured plates,each printed by R.Fenner.The plates are engraved by William Bromley after Stothards drawings.Full page engraved speech from As You Like it,titled The ages of Man,featuring one of Shakespeare's most enduring and often quoted lines-All the world's a stage,and all the men and women meerly players-.Fine recent binding of quarter red straight grained morocco,the spine,ruled,decorated and lettered in gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Red morocco tips to corners of boards.Some offsetting from the Illustrations onto the text pages and some staining to the margins only on 5 pages but overall a very good attractive copy of this scarce and beautiful work.:  Price: 2000.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	5 SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM.; . THE COMEDIES,TRAGEDIES,HISTORICAL PLAYS,POEMS AND SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Robert Riviere and Son Ltd.London.,circa1920's.  THREE VOLUMES.8vo.(7 x 4.5 inches).Portrait frontis in each volume.Finely bound by Riviere & son in half blue calf,spines with raised bands,decorated with gilt piping.Compartments lettered,ruled and fully tooled in gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Top edges gilt.Marbled endpapers.Spines all lightly and uniformly faede but overall a lovely,attractively bound set.:  Price: 350.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	6 SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM.; . THE LEOPOLD SHAKSPERE.The poet's works,in chronological order. From the text of professor Delius,with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III",and an introduction by F.J.Furnivall. Cassell Petter & Galpin.London.,Circa 1870's.  Large 8vo (8.4 x 6.4 inches).Illustrated with wood engravings throughout the text & full page portrait frontis of Shakespeare.Very good bright copy in fine twentieth century binding of full brown calf.Spine with five raised bands,each with gilt piping.Compartments fully decorated in gilt.Black title label,gilt.Boards with double blind-stamped ruled borders.Inner boards with decorative floral tooling blind-stamped.Marbled endpapers.All edges marbled.A beautiful copy.:literature.  Price: 225.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	7 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.; . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, London.,Circa 1920's.  4to. Near fine with 24 quality tipped-in full colour plates with tissue guards by Sir James D. Linton RI.Contemporary half dark blue morocco with light blue cloth boards, raised bands with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Pages XIX - XXVI misbound but complete. V. minor rubbing to edges of boards but overall an attractive copy.:  Price: 150.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	8 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.; THOMSON.HUGH.Illustrates. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. William Heinemann, London.,1910.  FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Forty tipped-in full colour plates with tissue guards by Hugh Thomson. Rebound in 1/2 dark blue morocco with light blue cloth boards, raised bands with gilt decoration and lettering in compartments. Light off-setting from some plates otherwise an attractive, near fine copy.:  Price: 250.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	9 SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM.; . THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. Complete in one volume. Ireland and co.London and Manchester.,ND (circa 1870's).  Large 8vo.(iv),920pp.Text printed in double column.A very good copy in publishers red cloth with highly decorative gilt stamped spine.Author and title lettered within elaborate design.The whole housed with a double ruled border.Boards with blind stamped corner decorations with a triple ruled border.Brown endpapers.Top of spine has a small stain accross about a quarter inch of the cloth.Overall a near fine copy in a highly decorative victorian cloth binding.A scarce edition,unrecorded in the British Library or the Copac library catalogues.:  Price: 125.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	10 RACKHAM.ARTHUR.Illustrates.; SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM. THE TEMPEST. Heinemann.London.,1926  FIRST RACKHAM EDITION.4to.Colour frontis and nineteen tipped in colour plates.Line drawings for head and tail pieces throughout.Finely bound in recent full black morocco,raised bands,decorated and lettered in gilt.Red title label,gilt.Ruled gilt border on boards.Top edge gilt.A fine copy of this beautiful book.:  Price: 375.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	11 SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM.; . THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE. Reprinted from the first folio,1623,with collations of the second,third and fourth folios,by W.J.Craig.. Published for The New Shakespeare Society by N.Trubner & Co.London.,1883  FIRST PRINING OF THIS EDITION.Large 8vo.(9.8 x 7.1 inches).With correction slip inserted.Blank endpapers and first and last pages of text foxed.Finely bound in early half red calf,spine with raised bands,piped in gilt.Compartments fully decorated in gilt.Twin labels,gilt.Red silk on boards.Marbled endpapers.Circular gilt stamp of Royal Institution School,Liverpool,on front board.A very good copy in beautiful binding with some minimal rubbing to edges.:  Price: 125.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	12 SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM.; Edited by William George Clark,John Glover,& William Aldis Wright. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. The Cambridge Shakespeare. MacMillan and Co.Cambridge and London.,1863 -1866  NINE VOLUMES.The first printing of the Cambridge Shakespeare.Fine contemporary bindings by Fawn & Son of Bristol in full dark green calf.Spines with five raised bands,gilt.Red and burgundy labels lettered and ruled in gilt.Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt.Boards with single blind stamped and double ruled gilt borders.Board edges decorated in gilt.Marbled endpapers.All edges marbled.Some foxing to the endpapers but generally a very good clean set in attractive Victorian bindings.A handsome set.:  Price: 800.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	13 SHAKESPEARE.WILLIAM.; . THE WORKS. Collated and Corrected by the former editions by Mr.Pope. J.Tonson.London.,1728  SECOND EDITION.Ten volumes.12mo.Containing Pericles and the doubtful plays,not published in Pope's first edition of 1725.This edition contains Pope's final revisions and his new response to Theobald's criticisms.Illustrated throughout with 45 fine copper engravings.An attractive set of this important edition.Bound in mid nineteenth century half tan calf.Spines with five raised bands,each with gilt piping.Compartments with decorative blind stamped rolls.Red and dark green labels,ruled and lettered in gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Previous owners name and date (1847) written neatly on blank endpaper to each volume.Some minor rubbing to edges but overall a very good set of this scarce edition.:wph.  Price: 3750.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart