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1910réf. 4812William Heinemann. London. 1910. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 4to. Illustrated throughout with forty fine full colour plates each mounted onto thicker art paper and with a printed tissue guard cover. A very good copy in a fine leather binding of half dark blue morocco spine with raised bands ruled lettered & decorated in gilt. Blue cloth on the boards. To edge gilt. William Heinemann. London. 1910 hardcover
1944réf. 6179Wartime edition. First edition of 'Romeo and Juliet' in Pasternak's adaptation for children. At the end of the 1930s Pasternak became a translator: '..not by good fortune through misprision and if conditions were better I ought not to be translating at all' Makaryk McHugh. Shakespeare and the Second World War. 2012. Two extracts from 'Romeo and Juliet' appeared in magazines in 1941 '30 Dney' No 4 and 'Internatsional'naya Literatura' No 5 but the beginning of WWII interrupted his work. In October 1941 Pasternak was evacuated to Chistopol where he finished the translation in February 1942. He wrote to his first wife Eugeniya Pasternak that he was totally absorbed in his work and had not written to anyone for more than two months — 'a conscious sacrifice for "Romeo and Juliet"'Sergeeva-Klyatis. Pasternak v Zhizni. 2015. It costs him 'more pain' than 'Hamlet' the first Shakespeare play translated by Pasternak. In Chistopol he gave a public reading at Teacher's House on February 26. Tickets cost four and five rubles and 'the event was held as a benefit performance for soldiers of the Red Army' Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography. Vol. 2. 2004. After the first extremely rare collotype edition 100 copies only the play was not published for a year. Pasternak believed that it was due to the deteriorating political situation between the Soviet Union and the UK: '..it had an effect on Shakespeare and after him on me so my shares falling.' Lucenko. ".Pod Ruku s Morozovym". 2016. The first official edition was published in OGIZ in February 1944 and the next edition was supposed to appear in Detgiz the state publishing house of children's literature. The author of the preface a literary critic Shakespearean Mikhail Morozov 1897–1952 called this translation 'a magnificent artistic creation' but he also considered that this translation is not for children. Pasternak corrected edited and shortened the translation especially for children. Most likely an artist Elena Rodionova 1912–1996 prepared these illustrations of 'Romeo and Juliet' before WWII. For the first time the illustration with the balcony scene appeared in the magazine '30 Dney' '30 Days' No 4 1941 p. 42. Zakharenko 1955. # 113. Detgiz paperback
1939réf. 1663PARIS. UNION LATINE D'EDITIONS. 1939. 5 FORTS VOLUMES IN-8 (19 X 23,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON), RELIURE DE L'EDITEUR PLEIN CHAGRIN VERT, DOS A 4 NERFS, TITRE ET TETE DORES, SOUS ETUI BORDE. ILLUSTRE DE 242 DESSINS IN ET HORS TEXTE D'EDY LEGRAND. PREMIER TIRAGE LIMITE A 8000 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, DONT 10 HORS COMMERCE. UN DES 80 DU TIRAGE DE TETE SUR JAPON NACRE. INFIMES PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS GRAVITE, SINON TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE, SUR TRES BEAU PAPIER DU JAPON.
1946réf. 18310Traduit par André Gide. Envoi sur la page du faux titre "à mon excellent collaborateur Pierre Renoir (comédien) en affectueux souvenir, André Gide"Un des 30 exemplaires hors commerce sur vergé de Hollande. Exemplaire portant le numéroté (H.C. XIX).Paris, Gallimard - NRF - 1946 - 238 pages. Edition originale de la traduction d'André Gide.Reliure demi basane de l'époque. Dos à nerfs aux titre et auteur dorés. Tranches jaspées. Couverture bleue conservée. Pas de rousseur. Très bon état. Format in-12°(16x11).
1895réf. 10452G Napier & Co Birmingham and Tylston & Edwards Marsden London. Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. 1895. Printed by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. Large 8vo. 8.8 x 7.2 inches. iv154ppi Colophon. Decorative wood-cut Initial letters and borders on the text pages. Neat two line inscription on the title page. Early leather binding of half dark blue morocco. Spine which has been re-laid ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Double gilt ruled lines on the morocco edges bordering blue cloth panels on the boards. Marbled endpapers with a strip of plain paper to both inner hinges where the book has been professionally re-cased. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing to the edges of the binding. A beautifully produced edition in the arts and crafts style of the period in a skilfully repaired but very good quality and still attractive early leather binding. G Napier & Co, Birmingham, and Tylston & Edwards Marsden, London. Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handi hardcover
1944réf. 6199First edition of 'Antony and Cleopatra' translated by Pasternak. This is the only separate edition of his translation. Printed during wartime approved for printing on June 3 1944. This is the third Shakespeare play translated by Boris Pasternak 1890-1960 commissioned by the Moscow Art Theatre. He began work on it immediately after completing the translation of 'Romeo and Juliet'. By the end of June 1943 the translation was ready for printing. Soviet literary critic Mikhail Morozov described this translation as 'the most successful' emphasizing that it transcended mere translation to become a poetic dialogue between two poets. Pasternak himself likened Cleopatra to 'the Nastasya Filippovna of antiquity' drawing parallels with heroines such as Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. Illustrations were created by Mikhail Pikov 1903-1973 a student of VKhUTEMAS under Vladimir Favorsky known for his mastery of woodcut techniques. Zakharenko 1995. # 114. OGIZ, Goslitizdat paperback
1785réf. 11026John Bell. London. 1785. Two works in one volume. Early and first edition. 8vo. 5.8 x 3.6 inches. First work; 90pp. second work: 99pp. Some brown offsetting from the glue used in the binding to the first and last couple of leaves otherwise generally very good copies in an attractive late 18th century leather binding of half dark brown calf. Spine with decorative gilt bands. A new red leather title label lettered in gilt has been added to replace the missing original. Marbled paper on the boards. Some rubbing to the edges and the top hinge cracked but holding firm. Overall a pretty little volume. -- Early printing of Johnson & Steeven's Midsummer Nights Dream and First edition of their Annotations. John Bell. London. 1785 hardcover
1904réf. 31872Stratford-On-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press 1904. 10 volumes. First Edition printed by the Shakespeare Head Press. Limited and Numbered this being copy number 525. Illustrated with the Droeshout and Chandos portraits as frontispieces as well as the additional gravure frontispieces of known portraits of Shakespeare to every volume. 4to handsomely bound in three-quarter emerald-green morocco over turquoise cloth covered boards the spines with raised bands gilt stopped the compartments with panels in gilt featuring double fillet border lines corner tools and central ornamental tooling all in gilt two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt marbled endleaves top edge gilt. The text-blocks and illustrations are all in good order clean and fresh and very handsome the bindings have wear to the edges and tips one board detached but easily repaired an honest set internally very pleasing one portrait with a small water stain at a corner of the blank portion of the leaf. FIRST AND BEST EDITION PRODUCED BY THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS IN STRATFORD-ON-AVON. The Shakespeare Head Press was the dream child of A. H. Bullen who wished to produce beautiful editions of Shakespeare’s works-- set printed and bound in the famed author’s home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon. The press expanded significantly over the years and printed many wonderful editions by a plethora of writers. The books were printed for A.H. Bullen and F. Sidgwick at the press in the house of Julius Shaw the poet's friend and one of the witnesses to his will. The text with essays by H.C. Beeching Robert Bridges Henry Davey E.K. Chambers J.J. Jusserand and M.H. Spielmann. The type was composed under the supervision of T.E. Summerton. The whole was printed by F.S. Cooper. The work was begun in July 1904 and finished in January 1907. Colin Franklin writing in THE PRIVATE PRESSES says that in the years after the death of A. H. Bullen the Press's founder the Shakespeare Head Press "became the most mature and sophisticated of the private presses producing some works in the grand manner which are a great pleasure to read and examine now" p. 147. This set indeed is "in the grand manner" beautifully printed on fine paper and very handsomely bound and presented. This is a pleasing set internally showing the full effect of the beautiful Shakespeare Head Press printing of Shakespeare. The bindings have seen much better days but are still reasonably presentable. The Shakespeare Head Press hardcover
1968réf. 34798New York: W. W. Norton 1968. The First Issuance of the famous Norton Facsimile this copy with the original prospectus. photographically rendered facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare 1623. Folio publisher's full red morocco over red cloth covered boards in protective slipcase the spine with raised bands gilt ruled the compartments lettered and decorated in gilt ribbon marker red decorated endpapers. xxxvii 928 pp. A pristine copy as mint. AN IMPORTANT PRINTING AND PUBLISHING EVENT. Because of the peculiarities regarding the printing of the First Folio of the eighty or so copies at the Folger Library no two copies are identical. Professor Hinman was able to collate the Folger copies and discover all the variant readings and corrections made during the print run and for this facsimile he provides the finally corrected state of every page. As the advertisement states this is "a facsimile not of 'a' Folio but 'the' Folio." Each page is photographically reproduced without retouching or opaquing in the original size. Professor Hinman has provided a valuable introduction as well as a new standardized line-numbering which replaces the standard but quite faulty act-scene-line numbers of the old Globe edition of 1864. This edition also reproduces two original proof sheets with proofreader's marks. W. W. Norton hardcover
1967réf. 11023Heinemann. London. 1967. Reprint. This edition originally published in 1963. 8vo. 7.2 x 4.9 inches. vi 194pp. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red calf binding. Spine with raised bands each decorated with gilt wavy lines. Compartments double ruled and decorated in gilt. Blue morocco label gilt. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative floral gilt tooling. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall a lovely highly attractive volume. Heinemann. London. 1967 hardcover
1935réf. 27293London: Oxford University Press 1935. Early printing of the edition. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece of Shakespeare. 8vo beautifully bound in full dark-green crushed morocco the spine with raised bands richly gilt separating compartments with fully gilt panels incorporated broad central gilt tools and elaborate borders one compartment lettered in gilt the covers fully gilt with elaborately tooled borders enclosing very finely and broadly tooled inner designs in gilt all edges gilt end-leaves of fine marbled paper. 1352 pp. including a very extensive glossary. A very fine copy especially well preserved very handsome and a beautifully bound book. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE VENERABLE BARD. Besides of full complement of the plays the Sonnets and the longer poems are all included. There is a fine glossary an index of first lines and an index of characters. Oxford University Press hardcover
1872réf. RO20206513PAGNERRE. de 1859 à 1872. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 14 TOMES EN 14 VOLUMES: Environs 400 pages par tome - T.I: quelques mouillures sur la page de titre - plats jaspés - auteur, filet, titre de la tomaison et tomaison dorés sur piece de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
réf. 10121Heinemann. London. 1929. REPRINT RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. 9.7 x 7.2 inches. Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates each with a printed tissue paper guard. Thirty black and white illustrations some full page throughout the text. A lovely clean copy. Small crease to the bottom corner of the frontis plate otherwise a very good copy Finely bound for Henry Sotheran of London in recent full dark brown Levant Morocco. Spine with raised bands the compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt border roll on the inside of the boards. All edges gilt. Original blue cloth spine and both boards bound in at the back. A fine copy of this beautiful book. Rackham at his very best. Heinemann. London. 1929 hardcover
1888réf. 9014Ernest Nister. London. Printed in Nuremberg. ND. 1888. FIRST AND ONLY PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. Folio. 15 x 11.7 inches. Illustrated with six stunning full colour chromolithographic plates and twenty-seven sepia vignettes throughout the text. The artist is Julius Höppner a master of fairy and fantasy illustration. Original white cloth with elaborate full gilt decoration to spine and front board which also has a sunken panel with a bevelled gilt tooled edge where a full colour illustration is placed. Silk patterned paper endpapers. All edges gilt. Binding a bit loose. The board edges are rubbed and marked & there is some minor foxing to most pages but overall this is a near to very good copy of a truly beautiful book. Ernest Nister. London. Printed in Nuremberg. ND. 1888 hardcover
1928réf. 35100London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for Robt. Riviere and Son Ltd. 1928. First Edition. Decorated throughout with capital letters printed in blue. 8vo handsomely bound by Riviere in full blue polished calf gilt tooled double fillet borders on both covers elaborate gilt tooled panel designs to the compartments of the spine raised bands gilt decorated red morocco lettering label gilt gilt turnovers and board edges marbled end-leaves all edges gilt. 154 pp. A very handsome copy the binding tight and strong clean and bright a very finely preserved copy of this beautiful printing. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND PRESENTED FIRST EDITION. A RIVIERE BINDING FOR THIS VERY SCARCE RIVIERE PRINTING. A beautiful production and as finely produced a twentieth century Shakespeare SONNETS as one might wish to find. The fine handmade papers used for this production are of great quality and show no effects of aging whatsoever. The design type and paper selection is very pleasing to the senses. A scarce item and one of a very few printed and bound especially for Riviere and Son. Robert RiviÄre founded his bindery in Bath in 1829 and George Bayntun followed his example in 1894. In 1939 Bayntun bought RiviÄre and merged the two firms. Bayntun-RiviÄre is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership and prides itself on continuing to bind entirely by hand. The Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham I 1867-1840. The management of the Press was taken oer in 1840 by the founder's nephew Charles Whittingham II 1795-1876. The name was first used in 1811 and the Press continued to operate until 1962. The Press had becme very influential in English printing and typography under Charles Whittingham II who most notably published some of the early designs of William Morris. The Chiswick Press deserves conspicuous credit for the reintroduction of quality printing into the trade in England when in 1844 it produced The Diary of Lady Willoughby set in the reign of Charles I. Printed at the Chiswick Press for Robt. Riviere and Son, Ltd. hardcover
1918réf. 040312Paris: L'Édition D'Art 1918. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Edmond Dulac. Finely rebound in a half leather art deco binding of gilt ruled green morocco with geometrical inlays on the spine of red and blue morocco in a marbled slipcase edged in leather. Undated ca. 1918 with 40 tipped in plates by Dulac one loose but present. Pages are very slightly browned otherwise unmarked. Lightly rubbed on the spine hinges and corners; slipcase worn at edges. Bookplate to a front endpaper. First Illustrated Edition or first by this illustrator and in this format. Size: Quarto 4to. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Edmond Dulac. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 040312. L'Édition D'Art hardcover
1895réf. 11818G Napier & Co Birmingham and Tylston & Edwards Marsden London. Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. 1895. Printed by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. Large 8vo. 9 x 7.2 inches. iv154ppi Colophon. Decorative wood-cut Initial letters and borders on the text pages. Early leather binding by Seaford Bindery Sussex of half dark green morocco leather. Spine with four raised bands the compartments with blind ruled lines & also ruled and decorated in gilt. Decorative floral devices and ruled lines in gilt on the morocco panels on the boards with the front board also lettered in gilt. Top edge of the boards with gilt ruled lines. Marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt the others untrimmed as published. Spine is faded but still overall the whole book is very good indeed. This is a beautifully produced edition in the arts and crafts style of the period in a very good quality and attractive early leather binding. G Napier & Co, Birmingham, and Tylston & Edwards Marsden, London. Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handi hardcover
1911réf. 30764London: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited 1911. 3 volumes. First of the edition and first with the illustrations by Sullivan. Beautifully illustrated with 39 gravures after original illustrations by E.J. Sullivan. Thick 8vo very handsomely bound in full red morocco and signed by Bayntun Riviere & Son with edges gilt the covers bordered with gilt fillet lines spines with raised bands with gilt rules at the borders separating the compartments which are decorated with center tools in gilt picturing symbols of the stage two compartments with gilt lettering feathered marbled endpapers all edges gilt. 14 848; 8 887; 8 982 pp. A marvelous set all gilt still handsome and bright the bindings as pristine and without wear. A VERY FINE AND HANDSOME SET. This is a well-glossed and intelligently edited set of Shakespeare’s plays complete with a biographical section about Shakespeare. This edition also contains a plethora of intricate and delightful illustrations by E.J. Sullivan. A truly beautiful set. J.M. Dent and Sons, Limited hardcover
1908réf. 10595Heinemann. London. 1908. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 1st printing. 4to. 10.1 x 7.7 inches. Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates each with a printed tissue paper guard and 30 fine line drawings by Rackham throughout the text some full page. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands the compartments ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label gilt. Some light foxing throughout but still a very good copy of this beautiful book in an attractive leather binding. Rackham at his very best. Heinemann. London. 1908 hardcover
1883réf. 11751William Paterson Edinburgh. 1883. LIMITED EDITION. 8 volumes - Complete. One of only 550 numbered sets this number 30 with limitation leaf in each volume. 8vo 7.9 x 5.3 inches. Illustrated with a total of 38 plates a portrait of Shakespeare in Volume one and 37 etchings by M. Monzies from the original designs of M. Pille as well as several woodcut decorations and initials throughout the text. A fine and clean set throughout. Attractive early bindings for Henry Bumpus of High Holborn London of half burgundy straight grained morocco. Spines with five wide raised bands each with triple gilt ruled lines. Compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Green paper on boards with gilt ruled borders on the leather. Plain green paper endpapers. All edges gilt. A clean and bright copy in attractive leather bindings with some minor rubbing to the extremities but overall very good indeed. Volume I: The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedie of Errors and Much adoe about Nothing. Volume II: Loves Labour's Lost; A Midsommer Nights Dreame; The Merchant of Venice; As you Like it and The Taming of the Shrew. Volume III: All's Well that Ends Well; Twelfe Night Or what you will; The Winters Tale; The life and death of King John and The life and death of King Richard the Second. Volume IV: The First and Second Part of Henry the Fourth; The Life of Henry the Fift and The First Part of Henry the Sixt. Volume V: The Second and Third Part of Henry the Sixt; The Tragedy of Richard the Third and The Life of King Henry the Eight. Volume VI: The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Volume VII: The Life of Tymon of Athens; The Tragedie of Julius Caesar; The Tragedie of Macbeth; The Tragedie of Hamlet. Volume VIII: The Tragedie of King Lear; The Tragedie of Othello; The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra; The Tragedie of Cymbeline. William Paterson, Edinburgh. 1883 hardcover
réf. 26291THE SWALLOW PRESS 1975. FOLIO LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 115. FULLY BOUND IN NIGER LEATHER BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE PUBLISHED BY THE SWALLOW PRESS DESIGNED BY EDWARD BURRETT WITH DRAWINGS BY CLARKE HUTTON WITH A PREFACE BY ROBERT GRAVES. SIGNED BY ROBERT GRAVES EDWARD BURRETT AND CLARKE HUTTON. A FINE EXAMPLE OF A SCARCE BOOK. COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL SLIPCASE WORN. THE SWALLOW PRESS, 1975 hardcover
1858réf. 15651London: George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street 1858. 3 volumes. First edition edited by Howard Staunton and illustrated by John Gilbert. Engraved frontispiece of the Bard and a great profusion of engraved illustrations throughout both within the text and as full page plates. 8vo original midnight-blue three-quarter morocco edged in gold over pebbled cloth boards spines richly gilt separated into compartments with gilt lettering gilt ruled raised bands and elaborately decorated gilt panel designs within the compartments marbled endpapers a.e.g. lxviii 746; 768; 816 pp. A fine set all gilt and all bindings still very handsome and bright with only expected minor foxing to the prelims. A HANDSOME SET INDEED. Staunton has painstakingly researched Shakespeare’s original language and manuscripts when possible in an attempt to wrap himself around the Bard’s mind “to explain his obscurities to disentangle his intricacies and to illustrate his allusions” preface. The result is a well-glossed and intelligently edited set of Shakespeare’s plays complete with an extensive biographical section about Shakespeare miscellaneous documents relating to his estate and a reprint of his famous will in which he bequeaths to his wife his “second best bed with the furniture.” This edition also contains a plethora of intricate and delightful illustrations by John Gilbert. A truly beautiful set. George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street hardcover
1831réf. 25030London: William Pickering 1831. The fine and very scarce Pickering edition in one volume. This copy WITH FINE PROVENANCE having come from the library of Austin Dobsin with his decorative plate and identifying ownership label. Thick 8vo in a beautiful English binding of three-quarter crimson morocco over feather marbled boards lined in gilt at the turnovers the spine with raised bands dividing the compartments which are decorated with gilt framed panels and lettered in gilt in two of the compartments t.e.g. others untrimmed. 4 763 pp. A very fine and bright copy beautifully preserved the morocco binding in excellent condition and the text-block too in very fine condition. A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND EARLY PRINTING OF THE MASTER’S WORKS THIS COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE HAVING BEEN OWNED BY AUSTIN DOBSIN. The fine Pickering production of Shakespeare’s plays is still one of the most famous of the early 19th century printings and this copy is especially attractive in fine binding and ownership history. ‘Austin Dobson was distinguished as both poet and biographer. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse and some of his earliest work was his best. It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope gaveDobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems including "Tu Quoque" "A Gentleman of the Old School" "A Dialogue from Plato" and "Une Marquise." Many of his poems in their original form were illustrated—some indeed were written to support illustrations. By the autumn of 1873 Dobson had produced enough verse for a volume and published Vignettes in Rhyme which quickly went through three editions. During the period of their appearance in the magazine the poems had received unusual attention George Eliot among others encouraging the anonymous author. The little book immediately introduced him to a larger public. The period was an interesting one for a first appearance since the air was full of metrical experiment. Swinburne's bold excursions into classical metre had broken new ground; it was hopeless to attempt to compete and the poets of the day were looking for fresh forms and variations. Early in 1876 a small body of English poets discovered the French forms of Théodore de Banville Clement Marot and François Villon and determined to introduce them into English verse. Austin Dobson who had already made successful use of the triolet was at the head of this movement and in May 1876 he published in The Prodigals the first original ballade written in English. This he followed by English versions of the rondel rondeau and villanelle. An article in the Cornhill Magazine by Edmund Gosse "A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse" appearing in July 1877 simultaneously with Dobson's second volume Proverbs in Porcelain drew the general eye to the possibilities and achievements of the movement. The experiment was deemed a success. In 1883 Dobson published Old-World Idylls which contained some of his most characteristic work. By this time his taste was gradually settling on the period with which it has since become almost exclusively associated; and the spirit of the 18th century was revived in "The Ballad of Beau Brocade" and in "The Story of Rosina" as nowhere else in modern English poetry. In "Beau Brocade" the pictorial quality of his work is at its very best. He has been compared with Randolph Caldecott with which it has much in common; but Dobson's humour was not so "rollicking" and his portraiture not so broad as that of the illustrator of John Gilpin. His appeal was more intellectual. After 1885 Dobson was engaged mainly in critical and biographical prose by which he added considerably to the general knowledge of his favourite 18th century. His biographies of Henry Fielding 1883 Thomas Bewick 1884 Richard Steele 1886 Oliver Goldsmith 1888 Horace Walpole 1890 and William Hogarth 1879-1891-1897-1902-1907 are studies marked alike by assiduous research sympathetic presentation and sound criticism. In Four Frenchwomen 1890 in the three series of Eighteenth-Century Vignettes 1892-1894-1896 and in The Paladin of Philanthropy 1899 which contain unquestionably his most delicate prose work the accurate detail of each study is relieved by a charm of expression which could only be attained by a poet. In 1901 he collected his hitherto unpublished poems in a volume entitled Carmina Votiva.’ William Pickering hardcover
1958réf. 4042Paris, Tériade, 1958. In-folio en feuilles de 113-[8] pages, couverture blanche imprimée à rabats, sous chemise et étui carton. Belle condition.
1926réf. 046869London: William Heinemann and Doubleday 1926. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Vellum. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Rackham Arthur. Vellum backed boards. Very slight discoloration to boards - just about fine in a very slightly age toned jacket Number 314 of 520 1-260 for the U.K. 261-520 for the U.S. 21 color plates one of which did not appear in the trade edition. Latimer 61 Size: Quarto 4to. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Top edge gilt in good condition. Illustrator: Rackham Arthur. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Theatre & Plays; Signed by Illustrator. Inventory No: 046869. William Heinemann and Doubleday hardcover
