Beauties Shakespeare by Dodd Rev William (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. No date but circa 1840's. Miniature book in brown cloth. Light rubbing. A few short pencil marks to titles in front.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.

One Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. Quarter leather over marbled boards. The boards show some edgewear with rubbing. The binding is sound.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Sir John Gilbert, R.A. Birket Foster and others (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Hardback First Edtion Thus published 1879 Beautifully bound in full rich green cloth with ornate gilt and black printed pictorial to the front and spine The binding is still quite clean and bright although there is a little loss to the extremites minor abrasion to the front and light fading to the spine All edges are gilt and still fairly bright The black endpapers are dulled with slight cracking to the front internal gutter Previous owners inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper Light toning to the pages with the occasional thumb mark and spot of foxing the pages otherwise are clean throughout and beautifully illustratednbsp pp x 371 Overall a lovely copynbsp. book.