Published by George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., London
Seller: Karl Theis, Torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. In green cloth with black and gilt decorations and all page edges gilt, no date mentioned, front cover loose, bookplate or the like removed from front pastedown leaving glue residue, front endpaper missing.
Published by Ward, Lock and Bowden Ltd, 1111
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Boards are clean with corners bumped. Hinges are a bit cracked. Content has even toning and writing on the ffep. No DJ. 352pp + Index.
Published by Hurst & Co., 1890
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.
Published by William P. Nimmo., Edinburgh, 1880
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FIRST EDITION. A clean, tight copy in worn quarter cloth with patterned boards. Surface wear and edge-wear, corners bumped. Hinges a little weak. Neat name and date on reverse of ffep.337pp. with index. A Fair copy only. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall.
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Good. Smaller, sturdy book, orante gilt flowery design to all of spine and nearby sides, smooth ivory-colored boards with beautiful pattern of violets, all edges bright gilt, pattern inside covers and adjacent end papers, 268 pages. Very slight surface wear to tips, lightly browned stain at top front, nick at spine top edge. Near Very Good. 0.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (nd)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Published by Jaques and Wright., London, 1824
Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom
Disbound. Condition: Poor. A New Edition. 486pp. A reading copy or for rebind. No cover but content still well bound together. Interior has occasional stains but most of it very clean, plates very stained. Starts with marbled end-paper, ends with blank.
Published by Frederick warne & Co, 1111
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean, with heavy tanning overall.
Published by C Whittingham, The Chiswick Press, London, 1818
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Early edition of this much reprinted collection, in exceptionally good internal order with clean crisp and bright pages from front to back, bar a little marking and former owner's details to title page. Externally, full leather binding is shaken and heavily worn with loss to spine at head and foot. 32mo. 353pp + index and publisher's ads.
Published by William Nimmo London 1880, 1880
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
new edition 1/4 cloth Nice copy 16 mo. xxix + 337pp., index, Nice copy in red 1/4 cloth over marbled boards. Owners' bookplate on front paste-down. A nice copy.
Published by Lansingburgh, William Disturnell, Albany, 1821
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 16mo (3x5). Early printing by in Lansingburgh (NY) by William Disturnell in 1821. Leather binding over boards. Excerpts, passages and quotations from most of Shakespeare's plays (excluding Merry Wives of Windsor), organized by Comedies, Historical Plays and Tragedies. Excerpts are in chronological order within each play, with given titles commenting on their subject matter and providing some commentary (e.g. "Lady Percy's Pathetic Speech to her Husband," "Anger," "Harmless Innocence," etc.). Index at back. Signatures of previous owners on inside cover and front flyleaf in ink. Good condition: front cover detached but present; foxed.
Published by J. Walker, London, 1818
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
One Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. Quarter leather over marbled boards. The boards show some edgewear with rubbing. The binding is sound.
Published by Not Credited, England, 1818
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
First Edition
Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good (stained covers). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition. Please Email for further details. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾". Not Signed or Inscribed. HARDBACK.
Published by Wm. H. Hickman, Baltimore, 1835
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Frontispiece. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. First published in 1752 in London. First published in 1752 in London. Frontispiece. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Jaggard p. 561 for the first edition, p.565 for this edition Original green cloth. Rubbed, head of spine chipped, fore-edge of one page cut away, some foxing.
Published by Henry Washbourne,, 1857
Seller: Claude Cox Old & Rare Books ABA, ILAB, Saxmundham, United Kingdom
Pp.380; extra-engraved title with vignette & frontispiece by Heath after Corbould; lightly spotted; a very good copy of this attractive gift book edition in apt contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately blocked in blind, lettered in gold, all edges gilt & gauffred; slightly rubbed at edges. Endpaper inscription to 'N.H. Reeve from his sincere friend R.A. Seymour C[hrist's?].H[ospital?]. Aug '57.' Bindingted Photographs Literature.
Published by Chas. Daly, London, 1835
Seller: Flora Books, Mears Ashby, United Kingdom
Full-Leather. Condition: Good. viii 352pp, full green morocco with red spine label (heavily worn to edges and scuffed), engraved frontispiece, paper lightly browned, small 8vo (6.5x10cm).
Published by Charles Daly, London, 1839
Seller: Book Bar Wales, Wrexham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. New ed. in full, ribbed cloth binding with decorative gilt spine title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers and no inscriptions. Minor use with corners rubbed and RFEP gone. Illustrated title page and b/w frontispiece.
Published by C. & C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1825
Seller: The BOOKtique, Lake Oswego, OR, U.S.A.
Leather. Condition: Good. Illustrated Edition. A beautiful little leather-bound volume of excerpts from Shakespeare, with a gilt lyre to both covers, panels, and titling. Each section illustrated with an engraving. Noticeably rubbed spine and extremities. Scuff marks to the boards. Bookplate on the pastedown. Ffep loosened but still holds. Else a crisp, clean interior.
Published by London: Bickers & Son, 1878, London, 1878
Seller: One Book in a Million, Owosso, MI, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Good. Illustrated with 12 mounted photographs after illustrations from the Boydell Gallery. Original green decorative cloth, rubbed and corners worn. inside front hinge starting. Inside mostly clean and free of foxing.
Publication Date: 1783
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Fair. Boston (1783) Robert Hodge at his Office, in Marshall's Lane, near the Boston Stone. To which are added, his last prayer, written in the night before his death and other miscellaneous pieces. Octavo, 232pp., full leather. Fairly Good, original boards, final text page torn and sewn together, moderate toning in text throughout, covers worn, backstrip quite rubbed and worn with some edge chipping from backstrip, lacks free blanks.
Published by London C Cooke Undated c, 1777
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Cooke's Edition: Hardback, half-bound in brown leather, gold titles on black spinal label, gold decs., marbled bds., 90 x 145 mm., 200g., 125 pp., 2pp. advertisement in front of book, dated 1777, engraved tite-page, frontis (with foxing) and tail-piece at end, light shelf wear, no dw., Good copy.
Published by Frederick Warne and Co, London (undated)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated c1880s. Hardback copy in full green leather boards with blind stamped borders, raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 351pp + 16pp book catalogue to rear. Steel portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare with tissue guard, full page illustrations throughout. Marbled endpapers, gold gilt page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to board and spine edges. (58/2).
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, UK, 1879
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
Leather. Condition: Very Good. Gilbert, Sir John & Foster, Birket (illustrator). An illustrated collection of Shakespeare's plays. Includes 120*b/w illustrations. x+371pp. Bound in red leather with gilt and blindstamped border decoration. Five raised bands to spine with ornate decoration to panels in gilt.Title plate between first and second panels with gilt lettering. Rubbing to extremities of boards. Scratches to rear board. Dentelles in gilt. All page edges marbled. MArbled end papers. Bookplate of W A Foyle (founder of Foyles booksellers) to front pastedown. Text-block and leaves sound except for occasional foxing.
Published by from the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham : Sold by R. Jennings, T. Tegg, A.K. Newman and Co, [London], 1821
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Later Edition. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, Very Good, gilt lettering at spine worn away, boards rubbed, edges soiled, widely scattered light toning. 5 1/4" x 3 1/8". [3], vi-x, 353, [19] pages (Index). With four illustrations, one at title pg. and one at head of each of the three Parts - Comedies, Historical Plays, and Tragedies. An uncommon edition. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "The following ballads were written between twenty and thirty years past, at various times, for the entertainment of a Society of Archers, called the Royal Kentish Bowmen, at their occasional meetings on Dartford Heath, Kent. His Royal Highness the present Prince Regent, patronized it; and being thus distinguished, it became privileged to assume the additional appellation of Royal." 175pp. Ex library with four small stamps. Bequest label of R.W.Walsh 1887.
Published by Scott Webster & Geary, London, 1841
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Leather. Condition: VG. Various (illustrator). 1st. 12mo. Burgundy leather with elaborate 19th century gilt decoration and embossing. All edges gilt. 21 engravings or embellishments by various artists. Leather slightly worn at extremities. Sporadic foxing throughout. Bookplate to ffep. Nice item.
Published by Scott, Webster & Geary, London, 1841
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 378pp. 21 engravings or embellishments by various artists. Wright, Stephanoff, Corbould,and Westall and engraved by Heath, Rolls, Bacon, Greatbach, Engleheart, and Chevalier.A fine English binding with gilt decorated boards and spine in gilt. Lacking the front free end-paper. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.
Published by Robert Johnson, Philadelphia, 1806
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Full calf. Condition: Good. Johnson's Edition. 12mo. [1], xxiv, 25-177, [1] page blank, [2]. Frontispiece engraving of Dodd. Marbled brown calf leather binding with red leather title label and gilt lines on the spine. Hinges and joints repaired. Light toning to pages. First published in England, 1777. Shaw & Shoemaker 10303.
Published by London ;- C. Dilly in the Poultry, 1789
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Most Attractive 12 mo. Third Edition with Additions. With A n Account of the Author, and a List of his Works. xxxvi + 208pps. Full Contemporary Tree calf, original leather spine label. (spine joints a little tender) Portrait Frontis. (corner waterstain) 'John Powell' Book-plate. Scarce.
Published by Printed For C. Dilly, London, 1789
Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A very scarce work written by Rev. William Dodd. A large proportion of this work was written during his incarceration. Third edition, with additions. In a full tree calf binding, with a red morocco spine label. Previous owners ink inscription to the front pastedown and front endpaper and also to verso of the title page. Written by the Rev. William Dodd, during his time in prison prior to his execution. Dodd was imprisoned on the charge of forgery, and was hanged at Tyburn in 1777. This particular work features his reflections on the judicial and prison systems of the 18th century. In addition to this volume features Dodd's last prayer, written that before his death, and a selection of his other miscellaneous works. In a full tree calf binding. Externally sound, with heavy rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. Surface cracks to the spine. Heavy rubbing to the rear joint, with a large crack to the front joint. Light offsetting to both the front and rear pastedown and endpapers. The front hinge is very lightly strained. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd ink spot throughout. Very Good. book.