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1913réf. 34878London: J.M. Dent 1913-1917. 40 volumes bound into 20. A very handsomely bound and early set of the Temple gift edition of "pocket" volumes of Shakepeare's plays and poems. Each play the sonnets and poems with frontispiece engraving very nicely done with captioned tissue-guards and each with its own unique handsomely decorated title-page printed in black and red all are in a style reminiscent of the Kelmscott Press featuring central vignettes or portraits within elaborate borders headlines throughout printed in red and with black and yellow emblems of the edition on each pastedown. 12mo beautifully bound by Bumpus of Oxford England in full light-brown polished calf the spines lettered in gilt between raised bands the covers tooled in blind at the borders and turnovers silk ribbon markers to each volume all edges gilt. A very pleasing and beautifully preserved set of this highly stylized library collection the text printed on fine paper is clean and fresh the bindings are tight and strong and without any wear to speak of a very fine set. A VERY APPEALING SET OF THESE LITTLE GEMS Dent's very popular TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE provides a wonderful way to read the great Bard's works. Each of the thirty-nine plays is presented in a attractive manner the headlines in bright red the text in black all easily used and read; a final volume provides us with the poems and sonnets. The plays and poems all in handsome bindings executed by Bumpus. The text of the plays and poems are from the Cambridge Shakespeare and each play with a fine preface glossary and notes by Israel Gollancz British philologist and academic who was a scholar of early English literature and of William Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London from 1903 to 1930. He was a founder member and the first Secretary 1902–1930 of the British Academy and of the committee for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre which eventually became the Royal National Theatre in London and he was the Director of the Early English Text Society. He edited the "Temple" Shakespeare a uniform edition of the complete works in pocket-size volumes which was the most popular Shakespeare edition of its day. In 1916 as Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee he also edited A Book of Homage to Shakespeare an anthology of responses to Shakespeare from scholars thinkers and other prominent figures from around the world. J.M. Dent hardcover
1821réf. 27348London: F.C. and J. Rivington; et al 1821. 21 volumes. The ‘Boswell’s Malone’ Edition first thus. With engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare in Volume I and II and III engraved illustration of the Globe and folding leaves in Vol. III with steel-engraved plate in Vol. VIII a large folding engraved plate in Vol. XVI and printed music in Vol. XVII. 8vo handsomely bound in contemporary full smooth tan calf boards gilt ruled gilt decorated board edges spines attractively gilt tooled in panels between raised gilt tooled bands lettering labels in two panels of dark green and buff morocco smaller morocco volume labels at the tails all labels lettered in gilt a.e.g. A very handsome and stately set in proper bindings internally very fresh bindings with some minor age evidence some cracking to hinges on some volumes one cover detached and easily repairedstill a pleasing and handsome set. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY PRINTING OF THE WORKS. This variorum edition not only forms a fine summery of the cumulative scholarship on Shakespeare during the 18th century but has time and again been called the foundation of modern Shakespearean scholarship. James Boswell the son of Johnson’s biographer had a hard task in ordering Malone’s papers - “I may add” he states in his 50 page introduction “that it is not everyone who could have deciphered his notes.” Along with all of Malone’s material this set contains three full volumes of scholarly works including the prefaces of all of the major editions of the previous century more then one life of Shakespeare Boswell’s life of Malone histories of the stage Shakespeare’s will Coat of Arms and other relative documents to the Bards life and extensive notes on and from the modern editions. In addition to all of this material is the extensive and very useful ‘Glossarial Index’ and an Addenda. No less then 35 publishers joined forces to produce these volumes and it is alone among the variorum editions to include a volume of Poems. Its influence was such that many years later the Sette of Odd Volumes a renowned bibliophile dining club limited its membership to 21 stating this in its list of rules; “The Sette of Odd Volumes to consist of twenty one this being the number of volumes of the variorum Shakespeare of 1821”. F.C. and J. Rivington; et al hardcover
1943réf. 213Lausanne, André Gonin, (1943). Un volume in-4 (37.4 x 27.6) en feuilles sous emboîtage.
1793réf. 20837London: Printed for and Under the Direction of John Bell 1793. 20 volumes. The important Bell’s Shakespeare with the Prefaces by Pope Theobald Hanmer Warburton and Johnson and with both Rowe’s and Malone’s Life of Shakespeare and with many other important essays notes and emendations. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare and of the Prince of Wales of Pope Warburton Hanmer and Johnson as well as others of Shakespeare’s house and with a profusion of finely engraved plates throughout the volumes 12mo beautifully bound in full red Regency straight-grain morocco with handsome gilt ruling to the borders of the upper and lower covers the spine with compartments separated by gilt bands gilt tooled Regency decorative motifs and lettering in gilt within the compartments gilt tooled edges and gilt rolled turnovers marbled end-leaves all edges gilt. An excellent and important set very handsome beautifully preserved fresh and clean. AN IMPORTANT PRESSING OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS AND OF THE SCHOLARLY WRITINGS AND DISCUSSIONS UP TO THE CURRENT TIME. The plays are from Steevens' and Johnson's Scholarly Edition of Shakespeare 1773. This edition prints a two volume Prolegomena which consists of prefaces written for Shakespeare's plays over many years. A PROLEGOMENA TO THE DRAMATICK WRITINGS OF WILL. SHAKSPER includes along with all the most important prefaces both Rowe’s and Malone’s ‘Lives of Shakespeare’ the 1623 preface of Heming and Condell as well as Shakespeare's Will Commendatory Verses and an attempt to determine the original order of the plays. With 97 portraits vignettes and character plates including a foldout of signatures on Shakespeare's Will in Vol. II "an example of fans" in the Merry Wives' Annotations a foldout of the Morris Dancers in Henry IV part 1's Annotations and an extra vignette in Titus Andronicus. This the "Literary" Shakespeare was published serially beginning in 1785 and collected in 20 vols. What distinguishes this edition from the others by Bell is the elaborateness of the presentation. This was the culmination of a 15 year effort to publish an edition of the Bard's works which had a high cultural value due to its edition annotation and beauty of its typography and illustration. Indeed this edition proved a social triumph for Bell with his assembled 1800 subscribers including the Royal Family ex-cept for the Sovereign along with the Queen of France monsieur the Kings brother and a collection of 70 nobles. The edition was printed on smooth wove paper gilt edges and handsomely bound in calf probably in Bell's own bindery. In this edition Bell first replaced the long s � with the modern small rounded s an innovation which quickly caught on. There are many more portraits in this edition than in the earlier "acting" editions of Shakespeare. In the Prolegomena alone there are 8 portraits as well as several engravings of places and things related to Shakespeare. Throughout the rest of the collection each play has between 2 and 4 character portraits featuring prominent actors in the roles. In contrast to the engravings of the earlier edition these portraits have oval borders and lush backgrounds. The actors themselves are rendered in a much softer more romantic style. The artists Bell commissioned were all under the age of 25 and relatively unknown. Most notable among them was the young Johan Heinrich Ramberg who had come to England from Hanover under the patronage of George III. It is because of these young artists that these portraits are so different from those in the "acting" edition. Ramberg brought with him a European aesthetic and all the artists brought the burgeoning romantic artistic trends to the drawing boards. Printed for and Under the Direction of John Bell hardcover
1632réf. 19044London: by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot 1632. From the famed Second Folio of Shakespeare. Folio quarter brown calf and marbled boards gilt lettered and ruled on the spine. 251-302. A very handsome and large copy the binding in excellent order the text in nice condition and with only typical or occasional mild spotting or light aging the last two leaves of Hamlet supplied from a different folio then the rest. RARE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT. Two of Shakespeare's most famous plays extracted from the Second Folio edition of his COMEDIES HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES a cornerstone--and some would say foundation--of English literature. While the complete Second Folio is one of the book collector's great prizes a status well reflected in its price these days this is an opportunity to acquire two of the best plays from the volume bound separately. THE ESSENCE OF SHAKESPEARE and truly the earliest obtainable printings of HAMLET or MACBETH that one could purchase. This 2nd Folio printing of MACBETH is the second time only that this great play was printed. MACBETH is a tragedy so great that for centuries it has been considered bad luck to even speak its name inside a theatre thus it is almost universally referred to by stage actors simply as “the Scottish play”. HAMLET contains the great line “to be or not to be” considered the most often quoted of all of the Bard’s many many well quoted lines. In either case these are the earliest obtainable printings of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. [by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot] hardcover
