1898. London: J M Dent & Co., n.d. [c.1898]. 40 vols. Roy. 8vo. Frontispiece engraving and several more engraved plates in each vol. with tissue guards, title-pages in red and black. Half red morocco over marbled boards by James MacDonald, gilt-stamped backstrips with raised bands, top edge gilt. Bindings very..... More
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1805. London: C and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... More
1823. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. and Martin Bossange and Co., 1823. Seven vols., 8vo., [xvi], 408; viii, [1]-395; [xvi], [1]-423; viii, [1]-483, [1 errata]; [viii], 377; viii, [1]-471; [x], [1]-389 pp., 18 fold-out plates, five of which are used as frontispieces. Contemporary half green calf roll-tooled in..... More
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1843. London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLIII (1843); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; London: Bradbury & Evans, MDCCCXLVI (1846); London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLV (1845); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 5 vols., 8vo, illustrated with engravings see below for the discussion of states and pagination. All volumes in full dark green..... More
2017. London: Strahan [and 20 others], 1775. 12 vols., small 8vo, variously paginated. With a portrait frontispiece of the author in vol. 1. Contemporary calf restored, every volume repaired at head and foot, backstrips restored, lacking 4 labels, some intermittent foxing and browning in several volumes. A good reading set..... More
1904. New York and London: Printed for subscribers only by M. Walter Dunne, 1904. 10 vols., 8vo (9 x 6 in.; 228 x 153 ). Frontispieces and numerous plates by Clare Victor Dwiggins in 2 states with lettered tissue-guards. Original half red morocco, backstrips richly gilt, gilt tops, a very..... More
1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1806. Three vols., 8vo., xiv, [1]-440, [36 index]; vi, [1]-468; [x], [1]-552 pp., one engraved frontis portrait and three vignette titles, 12 engraved plates as issued, some fold-out, and one fold-out table. Contemporary half..... More
1896. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, [1896]-1914. 20 volumes, 8vo., xix, [1]-444; xxxv, [1]-440; [viii], [1]-430; [vii], [1]-460; [viii], [1]-482; [viii], [1]-460; [viii], [1]-488; [viii], [1]-483; x, [1]-474; [viii], [1]-447; [viii], [1]-445; [xi], [1]-441; [vii], [1]-327; [vii], [1]-331; [viii], [1]-382; [viii], [1]-381; [viii], [1]-355; [viii], [1]-363; xxvi, [1]-433; xxvii, [1]-432..... More
1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson [and others]...1806. Ten vols., 8vo., cxxxiv, 389; viii, 447; vi, 439; vi, 476; vi, 423; vi, 422; xxxvi, 431; xix, 486; xvi, 499; xi, 387, [48] pp., with three frontisportraits and 18 engraved plates printed to recto only. Full contemporary polished calf, roll-tolled in..... More
1929. Paris: Fernand Roches, 1929. Five vols., 8vo., lxi, 252; 219; 313; 332; 399 pp., woodcut printers device and tailpiece, watermark matches the printers device. Quarter red morocco, marbled paper boards, backstrip with three raised bands paneled in gilt and black, with title stamped in gilt, decorative endpapers. Joints and..... More
1842. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell; London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1842-47. Twelve vols., large 8vo., viii, [1]-674; viii, [1]-676; vi, [1]-[670]; viii, [1]-685; viii, [1]-580; vi, [1]-617; viii, [1]-727; vii, [1]-600; viii, [1]-728; viii, [1]-588; vi, [1]-614; vii, [1]-524 pp., each volume with a steel engraved frontis with tissue guard, and woodcut..... More
1821. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1821 21 vols., 8vo, early mottled calf, skillfully rebacked in tan calf with red and black labels lettered in gilt. A very good set. § Only printing of the so-called ‘Boswell’s Malone’, upon which Colin Franklin comments in “Shakespeare Domesticated”..... More
1819. London: Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, [for numerous booksellers]. 1819. 8 vols., 8vo, variously paginated. With an engraved frontispiece after Stothard in each volume Old calf, some covers a bit worn, brightly rebacked with red labels lettered in gilt. § Best edition, a pleasant copy. “The Spectator” was a...... More
1869. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. 22 vols., 8vo. Uniformly bound in handsome full tree calf, delicate floral gilt border on covers. Gilt backstrip with red and dark-brown morocco labels. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow, bookseller ticket on front pastedown of each volume. Occasional rubbing..... More
1518. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1899. 13 vols., 8vo., xliv, 676; xlvii, 752; xli, 646; xxxvi, 711; xliii, 772; xxxvii, 759; xlvi, 725; xl, 806; lx, 340; xliii, 809; xlvi, 640; xl, 568; lxxxii, 751 pp., 558 plates including frontispieces of which 7 are portraits, many..... More
1906. Boston and New York: The Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1906. 20 vols., 8vo., xlv, [1]-435; x, [1]-375; xi, [1]-364; xii, [1]-489; xv, [1]-431; xv, [1]-460; liii, [1]-488; [xii], [1]-505; [xii], [1]-487; [xii], [1]-495; [xii], [1]-532; [x], [1]-491; [xii], [1]-527; [x], [1]-468; [xii], [1]-503; [xii], [1]-511; [xii]..... More
1880. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880-1918. Five vols., xlvii, [1]-566, [2 ads]; xiii, [1]-496; xii, [1]-608; xiii, [1]-670; xvii, [1]-652 pp. Modern quarter brown calf ruled in blind, marbled paper boards heightened in foils, backstrip with five raised bands, green and red labels lettered in gilt, with flourishes and rules..... More
1907. London and New York: A.R. Keller, 1907. 15 vols., 8vo, illustrations in every volume. Original de luxe binding of half dark green morocco, gilt tops, backstrips uniformly ages to brown, gilt decorations and lettering still bright. In all, a very good set § Limited to 800 sets, usually found..... More
