Clarke Charles Mary Cowden Eds (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, edge scuffs. Cracking to hinge. Content is clean and has light toning. No DJ.

SALESMAN'S SAMPLE. NY, nd (1870s?). Sample illus and pp, 12.5 x 9.5", cloth, bookplate, cover and spione heavily reinforced with fiber tape, moderate foxing. Order pp at back with only 3 names. Issued in 54 parts originally.

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes. [vi], lxi, 442; [iii], 443-1003 pp. With 66 illustrated plates selected from the John Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and reproduced in Woodburytype. Gilt decorated red publisher's leather with raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration to the spines; marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated turn-ins and a.e.g. Rubbing to extremities, with very slight scratching to boards. Two ink inscriptions, with dates of 1880 and 1966 to prelims. Foxing scattered throughout both volumes. Mary Cowden Clarke was a compiler of a concordance to Shakespeare and her husband Charles gave a series of lectures on the playwright. Large 8vo.