Henley William Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Top edges gilt. Covers lightly soiled. Corners slightly bumped. Spines a bit sunned. Contents nice.

Hardcover. The Edinburgh Folio. The Works of Shakespeare The Edinburgh Folio 40 volume complete set. Printed by T & A Constable of Edinburgh for Grant Richards of London in 1901. Signed by Constable to volume 1 with numbering of 989 of 1,000 copies produced. Fine printing on uncut art paper. Restrike of the Droeshout Engraving of Shakespeare portrait in front space of volume I, fine condition, crisp with tissue guard. Label of original seller to inside of front boards. Volume measure 13 x 8.25 inches.Clean pages, tight binding to text block, hinges weak with separation to volume I front board, varied soiling and stains to cloth boards, splitting and loss to spine cloth Clean pages, tight binding to te.

Limited edition of 1000 copies of which this is number 86, each volume signed by the publisher to limitation page;10 vols, 4to (33 x 22 cm); engraved frontispiece to each volume with tissue-guards (first volume captioned), some offsetting from ribbon bookmark to relevant leaves of each volume, small closed tears to the edges of the following pages p.281 of vol. I, p.96 of vol. II, p.197 of vol. III, p.279 of vol. VI, p.147 of vol. VIII, p.207 of vol. X, all minor (approx. 1-2cm or less) and none affecting text, small hole to p.126 of vol. II not affecting text, occasional spot or mark throughout, as expected with age, otherwise a bright and clean set in very good condition; finely-bound by Morrell, modern half brown morocco over brown cloth boards lined in gilt, spine in 6 compartments with two-line gilt-panelled border, ribs and lettering in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers with some light offsetting to edges, slight spotting to page edges, very small hole to cover of vol. V, largely unnoticeable, some general minor signs of wear, primarily to extremities, otherwise very handsome; [x], 353pp, [1]pp, [x], 368pp, [2]pp, [x], 326pp, [x], 335pp, [1]pp, [x], 358pp, [vi], 304pp, [viii], 347pp, [1]pp, [x], 362pp, [viii], 383pp, [1]pp, [x], 317pp, [1]pp. A handsome, finely-bound set of the collected works of William Shakespeare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. LYRA HEROICA: A Book of Verse for Boys. Published in London in 1893 by David Nutt. William Henley, editor Full red leather with gilt title to spine and gilt decorations to boards. Gilt dentelle. Spine with six compartments. All edges gilt. FORE-EDGE PAINTED with a country inn with dogs and horses. Fine binding. Gift inscription dated 1896 on front endpaper. Bookplate and former bookseller pencil notes on free front endpaper. Joints a bit worn. A very good+ copy.

Second edition. Prize binding from Monmouth High School for Girls, presentation inscription to Cicely Egles "Cicely Egles. Prize for Literature. July 1910." 8vo., choicely bound for Bumpus in full burgundy straight grained morocco, boards with french fillet border enclosing a floral border, upper board with gilt stamp "High School for Girls Monmouth", spine richly gilt, all edges gilt. A handsome volume. After leaving Monmouth High School for Girls, Cicely Egles (1892-1974) trained as a secretary to English social reformer Octavia Hill, living with her at 190 Marylebone Road in London.