Shakespeare William Clarke Charles Cowden (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First published in 1864, this is a one volume edition in a handsome full leather school prize binding. 18.5 x 24.5 cm, printed in double columns, lxi, [2], 1002 [2] pages, portrait frontispiece. Some creasing and chipping to title pages and frontispiece, foxing to a few pages first and last but o…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Add this exquisite, antiquarian beauty to your bookshelf today! With a tooled leather spine and brown marbled textblock, this wonderful old book will add a real touch of class to your home library. This book not only contains some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language, it also con…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Brown half-leather with lightly marked dark red boards. Banded spine with gilt decoration is rubbed at ends. Rubbed corners. Sound binding with taped hinges, except p. 153-160, which are detached. Clean pages. Text block edges are a little darkened. Contains many black an…

Cloth. Condition: Good. [circa 1860-70.] This is a GOOD only condition set of Shakespeare in three large volumes - Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Filled with engravings by Selous. Original publisher's cloth bindings rubbed and worn with hinges showing webbing. Title pages loose to Vol 1. Nevetheless, a good Victorian set, fi…

Half Leather. Condition: Good. 13 x 10 inch. All 3 still well bound except cracking to leather of front hinge of vol 1, some wear to the covers, a little cracking to top couple of inches on back cover of vol 3. some light foxing otherwise interiors good and clean, no names, inscriptions nor deliberate marks. maroon cover with gi…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Illustrated by H.C. Selous. In 3 Volumes, complete; The Comedies; the Historical Plays; and the Tragedies, together with the Editor's Preface and the Life of Shakespeare. Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, Lon…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Add this exquisite, antiquarian beauty to your bookshelf today! With a tooled green and gold leather spine and red marbled textblock, this wonderful old book will add a real touch of class to your home library. This volume contains some of Shakespeare's most wonderful plays such as Romeo and Jul…

HARDCOVER. 1st edition thus. 3 volume set, quarto, half-leather, brown pebbled boards, gilt to cover reads "Shakespeare", spine reads "The Plays of Shakespeare", tissue guards, b/w engravings, backstrip and portion of rear cover on Vol. II is dampstained. Vol. I - The Comedies Vol. II - The Histories Vol. III - The Tragedies und…

1st edition. Good copy in gilt-blocked, leather-backed cloth boards. Spine and covers bumped, dust-dulled, and roughly rubbed as with age (with some tears and loss). Inside bright and clear. Physical description; 1 v. (#1) ; 33 cm. Subjects; William Shakespeare. Renaissance playwriting. Renaissance arts. Theatre, Shakespeare. Sh…

1st edition. Good copy in gilt-blocked, leather-backed cloth boards. Spine and covers bumped, dust-dulled, and roughly rubbed as with age (with some tears and loss). Inside bright and clear. Physical description; 1 v. (#1) ; 33 cm. Subjects; William Shakespeare. Renaissance playwriting. Renaissance arts. Theatre, Shakespeare. Sh…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated, published ca. 1880 or thereabouts. Reprint. Three folio volumes bound in dark brown half-leather and cloth with gilt lettering, ornate borders and decorations. Illustrated with full page plates and drawings in text. Condition: the spine of Vol. I has been rebacked with the ori…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A scarce work exploring the style and prowess of William Shakespeare, compiled by husband and wife duo Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, bound in a full calf prize binding. Second edition. First published in 1879. In a full calf prize binding. Compiled by Mary Cowden Clarke and her husband Charles Co…

[Shakespeare] FINE LEATHER PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.lxi [3] 1002 [2]. With an engraved portrait of Shakespeare and his facsimile signature underneath. Title page lettered in red and black. Contemporary burgundy full morocco, boards lavishly gilt-tooled, upper with the gilt armorial device of the Licensed Victuallers…

[Complete Works] FINELY BOUND. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[8] lxii; 1003 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard. In small print over columns on thin paper. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black ink gift inscriptio…

Half Leather. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. No date of publication, though circa 1860s (Cassell Petter & Galpin existed in this configuration from 1858 to 1878). Complete set in three volumes, including comedies, histories, and tragedies. Burgundy dyed leather over spines and corners, with buckram burgundy cloth over boards.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A charming full calf edition of Shakespeare's Works, collaboratively edited by authors and Shakespearean experts Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. A charming The Works of William Shakespeare, scrupulously edited by author husband and wife Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Published by Bickers and Son i…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. lii 725p 730p 700p 746p set of four hardback volumes, all in very good condition, orange-brown half calf boards with gilt borders, a little wear to cover surfaces and corners, gilt designs and titles on spines, marbled edges and endpapers, firm binding in all volumes, light foxing to title pages,…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A smartly bound collection of the works of William Shakespeare, published and bound by Bickers & Son, London. A collection of the complete works of William Shakespeare, an English playwright, poet and actor widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent d…

Six-volume set, folio, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & gilt+ brown decoration to spine & front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, a.e.g, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard to each volume, xlviii + 712pp (vols.1&2), 596pp (vols.3&4), 775pp (vols.5&6), illus plus 35 full-page wood engravings & 35 pho…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No DJ. Published: n.d. DESCRIPTION: Three volumes bound in full red morocco leather with gilt ruled and decorated five ridge spine. Gilt ruled borders and inner gilt ruled and decorated frame to front and rear boards. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Illustrated by H.C. Selous. Language: Englis…

4 vols. Tall 8vo (9 x 6 ins). Contemporary half calf on marbled paper-laid boards with matching page edges and endpapers, spines gilt ruled in six compartments with contrasting labels (rubbed at edges of spines and corners - otherwise a VG set). Pp. various, with engraved portrait frontispiece in vol I (previous owner's bookplat…

Hardback. Condition: VG. No DW. Full leather decorated in black. Gold on burgundy title labels. Modern gift inscription to verso of front endpaper in Volume IV. Very clean tight texts in handome leather bindings (photos on request) which show a little shelf wear. Set is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.…

1st edition in this form. Good copies (3) in half aniline calf over buckram boards. Spine and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. : ill. ; 33 cm. Notes; Half-title: The plays of Shakespeare.Add…

1st edition in this form. Good copies (3) in half aniline calf over buckram boards. Spine and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. : ill. ; 33 cm. Notes; Half-title: The plays of Shakespeare.Add…

Three volumes, large paper issue. Folio. Finely bound for Coupil & Co. in brown full morocco with gilt borders, raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, gilt dentelles, marbled end papers and all edges gilt. A near fine set with a few scuffs to the boards and some foxing to the preliminaries. Full page plates and in-text illu…