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, Dodsley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... More

1835. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, MDCCCXXXV [1835]. 8vo, (xii), (1)-216 pp. Uncut in the original drab paper boards, white paper label. 1.5cm chip from head of backstrip and a small section rubbed white at foot, label soiled but just legible, boards clean, a few light spots to the first..... More

1615. Paris: Jean Millot, 1615. Sm. 8vo, vi, 325, (3) pp. Engraved title page followed by typographic title-page with woodcut vignette; headpieces and initials. Full polished calf gilt c.1900 with ribbon marker and earlier marbled endpapers. Calf a little rubbed, some scattered foxing but generally very good. Ownership inscription of..... More

1992. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. 4to, 117pp. With 5 woodcuts by McCurdy. Original green silk over boards, circular silver title on upper cover with a buffalo nickel set into the binding. Prospectus loosely inserted. § Limited to 400 copies signed by Mamet and McCurdy. Probably Mamet’s best known work..... More

1929. New York: Horace Liverwright, 1929. 4to, 151 pp. Printed in black and blue. Original mottled blue vellum paper boards, with O'Neill's signature gilt stamped to upper board and gilt-stamped label to backstrip; backstrip sun bleached, label chipped, one page roughly opened, pages clean; a very good copy in the..... 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

1749. London: Printed for J. Osborn, in Pater-noster-Row, and A. Millar, in the Strand, 1749. 8vo, 80pp. plus numerous blank leaves at end. Later quarter calf binding with gilt edging to covers. Last page of text (p. 80) heavily restored, a working copy only. § First trade edition, preceded by..... More

1772. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772. 4to, 364pp. Modern marbled boards in quarter calf with morocco label and gilt on backstrip. Marbled edges, brief ink inscription on title page, slight foxing at front and back. § First Baskerville quarto edition of the six surviving comedies of Terence, Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Phormio..... More

1885. Sacramento: Lewis and Johnston, 1885. 12mo, 245pp. Original dark maroon pebbled cloth, with gilt lettering to upper board. Spine sunned. Review pasted to front pastedown. Inner hinge cracked and splitting between front free endpaper and front pastedown. § First edition. Contains four plays by Welcker: The Bitter End, Flavia..... More

1899. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8vo, 213, (1, imprint)pp. Original salmon cloth stamped in gold, backstrip dull, internally very good. Wilmerding bookpate upside down in back. § First edition, one of 1000 copies. “Although Wilde's third play opened in 1895, it was not published until four years later and after..... More

1894. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1894. Small 4to, [xiv], 154, [1] pp. Original salmon buckram, covers with gilt-stamped decorations, gilt top, backstrip lettered and stamped in gilt, some browning throughout as usual, binding a bit soiled but good. § First edition (though there were 15 copies printed..... More