Sonnets by Shakespeare, Signed (26 results)

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy rexene covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 194 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs to the centre. Tea or coffee splash to the lower closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no wear at all to the covers, no dust wrapper as issued. SIGNED by the Author to the front paste down 'Ben Alexander. October 2008.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0954847407 SHAKESPEARE, William.

Softcover with glassine in blue slipcase, 40 pages, fair to good condition, the slipcase has light waterstains; the blue ink has stained the left edge of the front cover; the glassine and the right edge of the first blank page; no other internal marks. A numbered edition of 165; this copy is out of series; and inscribed and signed by Lawrence Saphire under the limitation. This copy is not part of the edition that has the print. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Fine Book Spoiled By A Small Scuff On The Front Cover . No 342 Of 500 Copies Pp 46 12 Colour Plates This Is A Large Heavy Book And Extra Postage Will Be Required. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Clarke Hutton (illustrator). 1st Edition, Limited Edition. TITLE: The Sonnets: William Shakespeare with a preface by Robert Graves, the Swallow Press, 1975._____DESCRIPTION: No. 84 of 300 copies, large quarto 13 3/4H x 10W inches, 350 x 255 mm. Preface by Robert Graves. Illustrated with 40 original abstract geometric drawings by Clarke Hutton on a variety of colored papers. Book design by Edward Burrett, a noted specialist in book design. Letterpress printed by W. E. Baxter of Lewes, Sussex, handset in Monotype Perpetua on Antique Laid paper made by Grosvenor Chater at Holywell, Clwyd, North Wales. Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full Niger tan morocco with gilt 'shining eye' design on front cover, two raised bands on spine with bold gilt titling and gilt logo of the press, purple and gold endpapers, top edge gilt. Signed by Graves, Hutton and Burrett in the colophon. Each of the 154 sonnets printed on a single page. Book protected with a clear archival Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. Matching slipcase covered in the same purple and gold paper as the endpapers. _____CONDITION: Faint 5 x 10 mm stain at top portion of front edge block (see photo). Book is otherwise in fine condition. (Note: white spots on the leather binding are photo artifact). Slipcase: VG+ with a few scattered areas of rubbing and paper loss along edges. Several closed tears (no paper loss or raised paper flaps) along slipcase spine._____DISCUSSION: This is an attractive and distinctive presentation of Shakespeare's sonnets. The type is large, bold and each sonnet is given its own page. The deluxe Niger morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe is a highlight. Clarke Hutton's abstract illustrations give this edition a modern look._____NOTE: International shipping cost using USPS International Priority EXPRESS Mail with tracking to most locations in the United Kingdom and Europe is $60 U.S. dollars. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Please see my comments regarding USPS international shipping and tracking in my AbeBooks storefront. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. This brings together thirty of the worlds foremost contemporary poets writing in responce to Shakespeare's Sonnets, these new poewms explore our relationship to the sonnet's intricate form. Signed by nine of the poets. Including Gillian Clarke, Jo Shapcott, Bernard O' Donoghue, Ruth Padel, etc Size: Small Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 71705. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. The recipient is not identified. Addressed to 'My dear Sir' and signed 'Herbert Thurston'. He begins by thanking him for 'the nice things you say', and continues: 'I fear I have no defence as regards Samuel Butler. I knew that he had written on the Sonnets and that some people thought highly of his book but I have never seen it. The fact was that I was provoked into talking up the question by some friends who have recently become obsessed by the Oxford theory. I promised them that I would look at their books, and my very inadequate article is the result.' In a postscript he states that he 'must look up S. Butler and "Willie Hughes." The reference in Sonnet 20 seems rather far fetched.' Butler's 'Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered' was published in 1899.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. (22)pp. The sixth book of the Borrower's Press. Fine, in full morocco with gilt-titling to spine and decorated endpapers. (Bradbury, p. 32). (15/16 by 3/4; 23x20mm). One of 275 copies. Signed by the printer, Jane Bernier.

1st THUS, ltd. 4to. Rebound: Edgeworn brown boards with cloth backstrip (loose along rear. spine corner), new end papers. Interiors OK. Signed by the editor, copy # 815 of 1000. From the Prefatory Note:. "All the compositions that find a place in the present publication were. excluded from the First Folio, and this undertaking therefore completes. the presentation of Shakespeare's writings in their most authentic. shape." Good+ (see notes) (uncut at top edges).

Condition: Très bon état. in-8, broché, couverture à rabats, 336 pp. Version française de Pierre Jean Jouve avec une préface originale et un envoi autographe signé de ce dernier : "A François Mauriac , ces grandes choses éternelles - à travers les langues. En hommage et amitié. Pierre Jean Jouve 1969". Dos légèrement bruni, sinon en belle condition.

Folio, 46pp. 12 colour plates. A fine hardback copy bound in full leather with gilt decorations. Limited to 500 copies signed by the artist, this copy no. 181. Heavy item, additional postage costs may be required.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Elbert Hubbard signed limited (#254 of 980) three quarter suede bound small loss to head and toe of spine. Each page with illuminated gilt bordered and colored first letter. Deckle edge. Tight binding no marks. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Signed by Other.

Illustrated with 10 original etchings by Othon Coubine. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Illustrated with 10 original etchings by Othon Coubine. First edition. Lettered copy "E" of the deluxe issue printed on handmade Pannekoek Dutch paper ("De Fortuin"), from the group of 25 deluxe copies in a total edition of 126. Signed by the artist in the colophon. Printed by R. Th. Hauser & Co., Frankfurt am Main, in Rudolf Koch Roman type of the Gebrüder Klingspor type foundry, with decorations designed by Rudolf Koch. Publisher's vellum covers with gilt illustration vignette on the front panel, gilt spine title, and top edge gilt, in Japanese folded-leaf binding with double leaves, stab-sewn through the covers; the hand binding executed by Ernst Rehbein, Darmstadt. Housed in the original publisher's hardpaper portfolio case. [26] p. A finely produced Flechtheim press artist's book illustrated with original etchings by Otakar Kubín and designed by Rudolf Koch, signed by the artist and issued in the deluxe edition. Issued as the 27th and final volume of the Flechtheim-Drucke, the series of artist books published under the direction of Alfred Flechtheim. The book was designed by Rudolf Koch, set in his Koch-Antiqua type and printed in blue and black with decorative initials also drawn by Koch. The illustrator Otakar Kubín (1883-1969)-who later worked under the French form of his name Othon Coubine-was a Czech painter and printmaker associated with the early twentieth-century avant-garde. After exhibiting in Herwarth Walden's Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon in 1913, he settled in France following the First World War, where his work moved toward a restrained classicism visible in the present etchings. The combination of Koch's typography and Coubine's refined etchings produced one of the most accomplished German livre d'artiste productions of the interwar period, and the work stands as the concluding publication of the Flechtheim series. . The portfolio somewhat worn; the book itself in fine condition. Publisher?s vellum covers with gilt illustration vignette on the front panel, gilt spine title, and top edge gilt, in Japanese folded-leaf binding with double leaves, stab-sewn through the covers; the hand binding executed by Ernst Rehbein, Darmstadt. Housed in the original publisher?s hardpaper portfolio case First edition. Lettered copy ?E? of the deluxe issue printed on handmade Pannekoek Dutch paper (?De Fortuin?), from the group of 25 deluxe copies in a total edition of 126. Signed by the artist in the colophon. Printed by R. Th. Hauser & Co., Frankfurt am Main, in Rudolf Koch Roman type of the Gebrüder Klingspor type foundry, with decorations designed by Rudolf Koch. Signed.

Full leather. This is an exquisite, finely bound, strikingly unconventionally illustrated edition of The Sonnets by poet, playwright, dramatist, and primus inter pares, William Shakespeare. 300 copies were produced thus of which this is number 44, signed on the colophon by Robert Graves (who contributes a substantive Preface), Edward Burrett (the book designer), and Clarke Hutton (the illustrator). A troika of features distinguish this copy. First is exceptional condition. Second, this copy is accompanied by the original publisher's prospectus and order form. Third, this is a designer's presentation copy, evidenced by a lengthy, signed, and dated 1975 gift inscription by Edward Burrett and his wife, Cecile, on the recto of the blank preceding the half title. Edward Burrett (1909-1995) was a noted specialist and connoisseur in book design, a founding member of the Society of Typographic Designers, and founding proprietor of the Penmiel Press.This large volume measures 10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm) bound in full Niger Morocco goatskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the contents printed on laid paper with each of the one hundred and fifty-four Sonnets allocated a single page. The volume is housed in a felt-lined, purple and gold paper-covered slipcase featuring an interlocking pattern of swallows, which is mirrored on the pastedowns of the book. The Sonnets features 40 illustrations on various tinted papers by Clarke Hutton (1898-1984) "one of the most eminent and influential book illustrators of his time". Hutton adds something unique to Shakespeare's work, which so often comes accompanied by traditional engravings, rather than modernist line work. The colophon features the signatures of Robert Graves, Edward Burrett and Clarke Hutton below the limitation number "44". The signatures of the book designer, Edward Burrett, and his wife, Cecile, are also found beneath their autograph gift inscription. Laid in are the large and beautifully printed publisher's prospectus, featuring a specimen page and extensive information about the edition. Also laid in is the publisher's order form.The volume is in truly fine condition, with no appreciable wear or flaws to either the binding or contents. The slipcase remains bright and fully intact, with superficial overall scuffing. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) left a cultural and literary legacy whose continuing influence is difficult to overstate. His stature so dominates English letters that it verges on biblical proportion. To the point, Shakespeare is often assumed to have been born on 23 April, St. George's Day, so that England's national poet and her patron saint share the same day of celebration, akin to how Christ's birthday is asserted onto the winter solstice. Shakespeare's plays are the most conspicuous aspect of his literary legacy, but, as Robert Graves states in his Preface, "Shakespeare built up a double reputation in literature; as a classic English playwright and as author of the Sonnets, his profound meditations on love. In the plays we are frequently aware of Shakespeare the poet; in the Sonnets we recognize his role as dramatist. The author of the Sonnets became incomparably greater than his contemporaries precisely because he needed to see himself and his beloved in dramatic and human terms." Robert Graves (1895-1985) was an English poet, novelist, critic, and translator perhaps best known today as a pioneer and master of the historical fiction genre for his Claudius series, compellingly fictionalizing the Roman Emperor. Born to a middle-class family with an Irish Gaelic scholar father, Graves's early life shaped his love for myth and poetry, even as boxing shaped his repeatedly broken nose. In 1913 he received a scholarship to study classics at St John's College, Oxford. However, he did not take his place at the university until after WWI; in 1914 he enlisted almost immediately after the outbreak of war, joining a regiment which included fellow war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

FIRST EDITION, folio, no.147 of 300 copies, (40 with original drawing), signed by Graves, Hutton and the designer, Edward Burrett. Burrett's copy of the original drawing for Sonnet 34, signed & numbered by the artist, mounted within separate portfolio with additional printing of Sonnet 34 on facing page; pp.(17)154(2) colophon; 40 characteristically geometric drawings by Hutton on a variety of tinted leaves; beautifully printed in hand-set 24pt Perpetua on heavy Grosvenor Chater Glastonbury Antique laid; very good in original full tan Niger morocco with upper cover device & backstrip lettering & device in gold, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt; decorated endpapers & matching portfolio in purple & gold design by Burrett. 'Just when I reached the age of retirement in 1974, I was invited to design a very special limited edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets - words profound and beautiful which I consider the finest ever written in the English language. There was to be no financial limit to the production and I was given complete freedom to. use the best materials available. After nearly a year's work three hundred copies were completed and I like to think it is perhaps the best work I have ever produced.' Full Point pp.26/7.

First edition thus: nine-page Preface by Robert Graves. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton with forty full-page geometric drawings. The design of the book is by Edward Burrett. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full Niger with gilt motif to front, gilt decorated endpapers, top edge gilt.Number 91 of 300 copies signed by Graves, Hutton and Burrett.Fine in near-fine. slightly rubbed slipcase whose paper design matches that of the book's endpapers.

leather_bound. Uniformly 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 1000 signed by Sidney Lee in the Venus And Adonis volume. Pagination's respectively reflect Lee's Introduction and Bibliography as per titles noted: 75, 57, 55, 71, 48 with 6 page list of Subscribers. The collotype facsimile leaves of the first editions "which found no place in the first folio" [JAGGARD] of the original Shakespeare text appear following the pagination's noted previously. With half-titles, all five volumes the provenance of William Andrews Clark, Jr. together with his red leather gilt decorated and lettered bookplates on the inside front covers. The Library at UCLA bears his name. Lacks original ties, endpapers toned, but all covers are bright and clean. Orig. full vellum, gilt front cover panel with arabesques at the corners. Very good. 5 vols.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number VI of XL (300) copies specially bound with an original drawing by Clarke Hutton, mounted and contained within a separate folder. This, one of just 8 copies separately reserved by the publishers, with an additional leaf at the rear signed by the directors of Maitland & Thorold, the paper maker, printer and bookbinder. Designed by Edward Burrett and signed by him, Clarke Hutton and Robert Graves. Handset in Monotype Perpetua and printed on Antique Laid paper by W.E. Baxter, Ltd, with the 40 Clarke Hutton illustrations inserted and printed by lithography on various tinted papers. Full niger morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, titled and blocked in gold, slipcase, portfolio and endpapers in gold and purple to a design by Clarke Hutton. A fine copy with the prospectus loosely inserted. Original pen-and-ink drawing, signed in pencil, by Clarke Hutton, in the accompanying portfolio with prospectus. From the library of Clarke Hutton, although without marks of ownership. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Shakespeare (William) The Sonnets, preface by Robert Graves, number 59 of 300 copies signed by Graves, the designer and the artist, full-page illustrations by Clarke Hutton on different coloured papers, original tan morocco with 'shining eye' motif in gilt on upper cover, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt, t.e.g., 1975. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number XVI of XL (300) copies specially bound with an original drawing by Clarke Hutton, mounted and contained within a separate folder. Designed by Edward Burrett and signed by him, Clarke Hutton and Robert Graves. Handset in Monotype Perpetua and printed on Antique Laid paper by W.E. Baxter, Ltd, with the 40 Clarke Hutton illustrations inserted and printed by lithography on various tinted papers. Full niger morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, titled and blocked in gold, slipcase, portfolio and endpapers in gold and purple to a design by Clarke Hutton. A fine copy the prospectus loosely inserted. An attractive book with the sonnets printed one to a page, though experience suggests that not all copies were bound up. The binding of the standard copies was either as the special or quarter mauve cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown buckram sides. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Editions du Club Français du Livre 1956. In-8 broché, carré, en feuilles de 312 pages au format 18 x 4 x 21 cm. Couvertures blanches, muettes, rempliées. Livre glissé sous double emboîtage, avec titre au dos. L'ouvrage contient 154 sonnets de William Shakespeare traduits et préfacés par Pierre-Jean Jouve. Chaque sonnet à en regard une grande lettrine tirée en bleu et gris. Edition entièrement hors commerce, publiée pour le dixième anniversaire du Club. Celui-ci est un des 2 000 exemplaires de tête, nominatif, sur offset centaure du Marais, spécialement imprimé pour Madame Irène Gros, et signé par Pierre-Jean Jouve. Les exemplaires nominatifs sont les seuls à ne pas être numérotés. Edition originale en état superbe, proche du neuf. Rare aussi frais.

Condition: Très bon état. in-8 carré, en feuilles, sous couverture rempliée et double emboîtage, non coupé, 316 pp., 154 lettrines imprimées à pleine page en deux tons. Bel exemplaire nominatif sur Centaure, avec la signature autographe de Jouve sous la justification.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Sagittaire, Paris, s.d (1955). In-12, broché, 188 pages. Importante préface "Sur les Sonnets de W.S." Prière d'insérer joint. Exemplaire marqué H.C, avec un envoi autographe De PJ.Jouve à Hubert Juin. Bon exemplaire. Dédicacé par l'auteur.

First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, 7 1/2 x 6 inches. 165 pp. Magnificently bound by M. Lortic, Paris, one of the most celebrated Parisian bookbinder of the late 19th century, admired for his lavish and detailed gilt tooling skills. Bound in full dark brown crushed levant morocco, covers lavishly gilt in an elaborate neo-Moresque panel design: interlaced strapwork cornerpieces, quatrefoil center panel filled with scrolling, rosettes and pointillÈ ornament. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt geometric strapwork, lettering. Superb deep red morocco doublures, heavily gilt with leafy cornerpieces and broad gilt frame, signed M. LORTIC at foot of front doublure; facing endpapers of red ribbed silk moirÈ. Marbled flyleaves. The board edges bear finely gilt and decorated gauffering in unique, very small artistic detail; wide turn-ins richly gilt with a continuous scrolling leafy border. All edges brightly gilt and gauffered, the gauffering continuing around the board edges ó a luxurious hallmark of the Lortic atelier. One of 50 additional copies on English handmade paper with rubricated initials, from an edition of 750 printed by the University Press, Cambridge, the ornamental designs by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, issued by Copeland and Day, Boston, as the fourth volume in the English Love Sonnets series. The present copy warmly inscribed on the flyleaf in a French contemporary hand. Binding is in excellent condition, near fine, with small wear to hinges of spine. No copies found online of this most scarce, special rubricated Copeland & Day title. Signed.

Signed limited edition of Venus and Adonis, number 634 of 1,000 copies signed by the editor Sidney Lee. This facsimile of the first edition of 1593 is finely bound together with facsimiles of the first editions of Lucrece (1594), The Passionate Pilgrim (1599), and the Sonnets (1609). The facsimiles are taken from copies held at the Bodleian Library and the Christie Miller Library at Britwell. For each of the four works, Lee (1859-1926) provided a bibliography and "a full and learned introduction incorporating a detailed account of its publication history and a descriptive census of copies, as well as a full survey of literary sources and analogues" (ODNB). Such bindings are named in honour of the famous Regency miniaturist Richard Cosway. They were initially executed in the first decade of the 20th century by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran, with the miniatures by Carolin Billin Currie. The Bayntun bindery, which acquired Rivière in 1939, continued to bind books in this style until the late 20th century. 5 works bound in 1, quarto (245 x 193 mm). Later 20th-century blue crushed morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, spine lettered in gilt, gilt rose motif to compartments and framing boards, enclosing central inset hand-coloured miniature of Shakespeare under glass surrounded by gilt frame, wide turn-ins with gilt rules, roll, and corner piece, cream silk doublures and flyleaves, fore edge gilt. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. A fine copy.

Prints only, no sonnets. Folio [34 cm] Illustrated dedication/title page plus 11 mounted woodcut prints [images 5 1/2 x 7 1/2"; on paper 7 3/8 x 9 1/2"] on loose bifolia sheets [13"]. Each with a loose tissue guard. All prints are signed by Isaac Friedlander in pencil in the bottom right corner. The Sonnet number is written in pencil in the bottom left corner. The prints are in a folder with a mounted illustrated dedication page on the front wrap (1 1/2" closed tear to the front folder wrap at the foot of the spine). All contents housed in a black paper chemise portfolio with a paper title label on the front of the portfolio. The portfolio is in very good condition, with light rubbing and edge wear. Short closed tear to top edge. Light stain along top edge of one bifolium. Prints fine. It is commonly agreed upon that the author of the dedication, "T. T." is the publisher Thomas Thorpe, however the identity of the dedicatee W. H. has been the matter of widespread and often bitter dispute, and is considered to be one of the most elusive figures in literary history. With striking images illustrating the following Sonnets by Shakespeare: Sonnet 7 (traces the path of the sun across the sky); Sonnet 12 (the poet realizes that the young man's beauty will be destroyed by Time); Sonnet 27 (the poet laments that the night, which should be a time of rest, is instead a time of continuing labor as, in his imagination he wrestles to reach his beloved); Sonnet 34 (the sun is overtaken by clouds, and the sun/beloved is accused of having betrayed the poet by promising what is not delivered); Sonnet 53 (the poet praises the beloved as not only the essence of beauty, but also as the epitome of constancy; Sonnet 66 (the poet gives examples of the societal wrongs that have driven him to become weary of life and long to die, except that he would thereby desert the beloved); Sonnet 97 (the poet remembers his separation from his beloved as a period as bleak as winter); Sonnet 116 (the poet meditates on what he views as the truest and strongest form of love, that between minds); Sonnet 123 (the poet muses that there is nothing new under the sun); Sonnet 127 (the poet defends his love of a mistress who does not fit the standard conventional definition of beauty); Sonnet 144 (reflects an allegory of a person tempted by a good and a bad angel). Missing Sonnet 106 (?). Eleven powerful images by Isaac Friedlander. Prolific etcher and wood engraver Isaac Friedlander (1890-1968) was born in Mitau, Latvia. Friedlander, a fervent opponent of Czarist rule, was sentenced to death at the age of 16- a fate he managed to narrowly escape. He moved to Italy in 1912, where he befriended Russian artist Maxim Gorky. During this time, he studied etching, drawing, and relief printing at the Academy of Rome. He emigrated to the United States in 1929, eventually settling in New York where he worked as a full-time artist until his death. His work often emphasizes his native Riga, the urban drama of Depression-era New York, and the horror of the Holocaust. Friedlander's works are represented in numerous museums, including the Smithsonian, Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Illustrated by Clarke Hutton and designed by Edward Burrett. (illustrator). Preface by Robert Graves. Spine very slightly sunned, still fine in near fine publisher's slipcase with some minor rubbing and small creases to top and bottom edge panels. Full tan polished morocco. Housed in publisher's slipcase Number 127 of 300 copies, signed by Robert Graves, Edward Burrett & Clarke Hutton.