Edited by Shakespeare, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. thick tall8vo, 23.5x 16.5cm, lxi,1002,[1]pp., engraved frontis portrait, chronology, glossary, title page printed in black and red, in full tree calf, elaborate gilt tooled floral decorations and borders in the panels, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt spine titles on crushed brown morocco label, gilt roll borders on the boards, gilt school crest (Wellington College) on the upper cover, blind stamped inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges, fine SIGNED binding, "Bickers and Son, London". (over-stamped), prize bookplate, some wear at the edges, else a very good to fine attractively bound copy. (cgc). - An attractive copy of Shakespeare's works edited by the these prominent nineteenth century Shakespeare scholars who also published the "Complete Concordance to Shakespeare". The frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, with facsimile signature, is by Martin Droeshout and engraved by R.C. Bell.

Cloth over boards. Condition: Good. Limited first edition. Set of two volumes. Hardcover cloth (original blue) over boards. Folio. Pagination: volume I -- xviii, 779 pp; volume II -- viii, 781 - 1527, [1] pp. Illustrations: volume I -- 1 two-colour engraved frontispiece, 22 b/w engraved full-page plates, and various b/w in text ornaments; volume II -- 1 two-colour engraved frontispiece, 16 b/w engraved full-page plates, and various b/w in text ornaments. Number 562 out of a limited print run of 750 copies. Signed and numbered by the illustrator on the edition page. Uniform binding. Vellum label with gilt title, illustrator, and publisher pasted on the spines. Gilt volume number stamped on the tail. Beveled boards. Blind tooled ornament on the front board. Gilt heads. Deckled fore edge and foot. Both volumes in similar condition: slight age toning, mostly clean and unmarked, illustrations bright, binding strong and square. Boards have been rubbed, with some of the gilt on the label of volume I having been rubbed off, and worn along the edges. Volume I has a small 1 cm circular discoloured mark on the back board. Overall a lovely, if heavy, set of Shakespeare's plays in good condition.

The Folio Society. 1988. First edition thus, specially and finely bound, to request, in full red morocco gilt. Raised bands and gilt fleur de lis pattern to spine, boards ruled and patterned in gilt with buyer's name "PAMELA" to foot of the upper board of each volume. Cockerell endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine set presented in a handmade dovetail wooden box. VERY SCARCE. The Folio Society produced three series of limited delux editions. This Shakespeare set is from number 2. The limitation is unknown as sets were only bound to order. Please see below for the complete series.1. The ultra-rare series of 5 regular titles from 1960 offered in a special binding, numbered and signed.2. A series of 12 regular box sets between 1968 and 1989 offered in full morocco leather bindings, limited but unnumbered. *3. A series of 9 regular titles between 1990 and 1995, in quarter morocco leather with Ann Muir marbled paper boards and signed by the artists, each limited to 100 numbered copies.* Life of Johnson Boswell (1968, limited to 200 copies) Decameron Boccaccio (1969, limitation unknown) The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature (1970, limitation 2500?) War And Peace Tolstoy (1971, limited to 2000 copies) The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Night (1974, limited to 500 copies) Chronicles of King Arthur Malory (1982, limitation unknown, signed by the illustrator) A Tour Through The Whole Island Of Great Britain Defoe (1983, limitation unknown) The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy (1984, limitation unknown) Jane Austen's Works (1984, limitation unknown, and again in 1996, limited to 1000 copies) Complete Novels Radcliffe (1987, limitation unknown) Complete Plays Shakespeare (1988, limitation unknown bound to order) The French Revolution Carlyle (1989, limited to 1000 copies).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The Cambridge Edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty numbered copies, signed by the illustrator Rockwell Kent. Bound in publisher's original full blue cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut. This set was originally issued in a single slipcase for both volumes and was extremely heavy. We had two new blue cloth slipcases lined with paper made to make it more manageable. The original vellum labels stamped in gilt were difficult to read from any distance so we had substituted two new red leather labels stamped in gilt which matched some of the coloring on the title page. Signed.

Three quarto volumes (each 10 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches). This set belonged to actor and film director John Cassavetes and is boldly signed by him with a huge seven inch signature which he has dated 1952. Contemporary calf boards illustrated with engravings, modern rebacking in brown leather with gilt-stamped spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Very good. Listed in Jaggard. Shakesperiana. John Cassavetes is considered the father of the modern American Independent Film movement with his personal films Shadows, Faces, Husbands, Minnie & Moskowitz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Gloria, etc. Cassavetes was also very much in demand as an actor in mainstream Hollywood and he appeared in such films as RosemaryÕs Baby, The Dirty Dozen, Capone, The Furys, etc. A terrific association copy with the works of the greatest of all dramatists owned by one of AmericaÕs most distinguished directors.

No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 1 vols. 4to. Half brown morocco. Slight scuff to spine, else Fine, in Very Good, edgeworn slipcase Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 1 vols. 4to No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Signed.