1982. Greenbrae: The Allen Press, 1982. 2 vols. 8vo, original orange cloth lettered in black in brown cloth slipcase. [134]; [148] pp. Title-pages printed in gilt and orange, textual decorations in orange throughout. As new, virtually perfect as issued, with the prospectus. § One of 140 copies, unnumbered as..... More
1972. Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1972. Large 4to, unpaginated, with 3 full-page plates. Quarter cloth with wooden boards, cloth slipcase. Fine as issued. § Printed in an edition limited to 130 copies. The three full-page color etchings, one for each of the three acts, are by French artist Michele Forgeois..... 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
1620. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. Small 4to, [xiv], 162, [ii] pp. With an etched title-page and five double-page etched plates by Jacques Callot. Strictly contemporary limp vellum, backstrip titled in manuscript, some wear and soiling to binding and an inoffensive waterstain in the lower margin from a2-D2, but an entirely..... More
1803. London: Mess. Boydell & Co., London, Cheapside, [1803]. Large 4to (12.75 x x 16.75 inches), [7] ff., + engraved title page, frontispiece, 2 portraits and 97 plates illustrating the most-famous scenes from Shakespeare. In the de luxe binding of publisher’s straight-grain red morocco gilt, gilt-extra backstrip, gilt design on..... 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
1822. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. 8vo, xxiii, 514, vii (index) pp. Half pebbled maroon morocco with blue marbled boards and endpapers, gilt decorated backstrip with 5 raised bands. Binding lightly worn, scattered foxing, faint remains of former owner’s name on recto of frontispiece, very good..... 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
1974. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974. Sm. 4to. 48, (2)pp. Index. Initials printed in dark pink. Original quarter vellum, green patterned cloth, gilt spine. A beautiful copy. § Edition limited to 300 copies printed on handmade Pescia paper, on the handpress. One of the loveliest and most popular of Mardersteig’s books..... 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
1935. San Francisco: David Magee, 1935. Folio, [30]pp., with preliminary text, facsimiles of the title to each folio followed by the original leaf, colophon. Original quarter red morocco over pattern paper boards, corners lightly rubbed, backstrip with some restoration, pleasant bookplate with the motto "Nunc mihi, mox aliis" (Now mine..... More
1910. London: William Heinemann, 1910. 4to, viii, 170, (2) pp. With a frontispiece and 40 color-plates tipped in, captioned tissue guards. Bound by Frost and Co. of Bath in three quarters blue morocco with cloth boards, ruled in gilt, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt and with lyre and trumpet..... More
1952. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. 8vo, xvii, 385, xiii, (i, colophon) pp. Quarter black cloth, green cloth boards, gilt stamped with titled and decorations. Gilt a little faded, board tips bumped, clean within but for marks left by a paperclip as page marker and one instance of underlining..... 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
2001. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Oblong folio, xvi, 114, (1, colophon)pp. plus text at each end about opening the folding plates. Original green silk, printed paper label on upper cover and backstrip, slipcase, as new with the four folding watercolors at front and back. § Limited to 400 copies..... 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
1854. Boston: 1854. Broadsides, 7 1/2 x 19” wood and lead letterpress printing, in protective sleeve; very good. § Two playbills from 1854 featuring “Mr. Forrest,” in “Damon and Pythias or The Test of Friendship,” and “Gladiator!” Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) was the first American-born star of the U.S. stage. His..... More
1903. London: Ballantyne Press [for The Vale Press], 1903. Slim 8vo, li, [1] pp. Full crushed green morocco by G.P. Putnam's Sons at the Knickerbocker Press; gilt-tooled turn-ins, green linen pastedowns, ribbon marker, backstrip with raised bands and title in gilt. Binding worn, joints cracking, internally fine. § One of..... 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..... More
1957. San Francisco: 1957. Folio (10 x 15 inch), 57 pp. with dozens of original playbills from the stage productions of the San Francisco-based Interplayers bound in, tipped in, or laid into a rear pocket. The endpapers are from a production of Hamlet. Handmade Tovil paper with deckle edges. Chapter..... More
