The Complete Works of Shakspere Revised from the Original Editions with Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play, also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and A Life of the Poet
Shakespeare, William & J. O. Halliwell
Published by London The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1860, 1860
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Reprints. Originally appearing under one of publisher John Tallis's earlier incarnations, which ceased to exist sometime around 1853. Complete in 8 volumes in the original publisher's blue cloth, elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt with gilt to all edges of each text block, and lemon yellow endpapers to all volumes other than VI's, which have been devoted to ads. Including the Tragic, Comic, Historical and Doubtful Plays. Undated but circa 1860. Each section of plays has its own frontispiece and illustrated title page and there are 89 additional engravings, mainly famous actors of the eighteenth and nineteenth century in various roles. Each section is separately paginated, 496, 576, 488 and 484 pages respectively. The books are reasonably firmly bound, the cloth is lightly marked and rubbed, the extremities are bumped and the spines are slightly toned, one has a puncture wound. The text blocks are slightly foxed, age toned and musty, with minor cracking at points, closed tears and chips to a few page edges and minor damage and creasing to some tissue guards. On the whole an attractive set and a rarity complete, in this format and in the original cloth, most that appear in commerce and those in institutional holdings having been bound up in 4 volumes, or without the Doubtful Plays. (Please note, this is a heavy set and may require extra postage). Seller Inventory # 6702
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Publisher: London The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1860
Publication Date: 1860
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The Complete Works of Shakspere (Shakespeare) - Revised from the Original Editions with Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play, also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and A Life of the Poet - Tragedies; Comedies; History - 3 Volume Set
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Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3 Volume set in half bound brown leather, brown leather boards with 5 raised bands, gold gilt lettering and decoration to spines. No dustjackets as issued. 575pp; 496pp; 487pp. B/w frontispieces with tissue guards, b/w plates throughout. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Not library copies, no inscriptions, some foxing throughout, rubbing to board edges and corners. (53/6). Seller Inventory # ABE-1659110587733
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The Complete Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare], Revised from the Original Editions with Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play, Also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and a Life of the Poet. (Vols. 1-3)
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John Tallis & Company, 1850
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Seller: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE [Sic], REVISED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS WITH HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL INTRODUCTIONS TO EACH PLAY, ALSO NOTES EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL, AND A LIFE OF THE POET. (Vols. 1-3), Shakspere [Shakespeare, William]; introduction and notes stated as written by James Orchard Halliwell (see note below), hardcover, illustrated with many full-page engravings of mid-19th century actors in costume, 1850. BOOK CONDITION: all three volumes are in poor condition. Some pages are separating from the spine. Much foxing, age-tanning of pages, along with some stains. Some tears, but as far as I can tell, no missing text pages. No volume is a remainder or library book. No bookplate nor signature of previous owner of the three volumes. Marbled endpapers and gilt edges all around. The part-leather and mainly brown cloth boards are in poor condition for each volume: rubbing, scratches, tears. Four raised bands on spines. Part of the spine of the ?Tragedies? volume is missing. 11 x 8, 576+496+ 516 = 1588 pages, 169 ounces (three volumes). NOTE THAT SINCE THE BOOKS ALL TOGETHER WEIGH OVER TEN POUNDS, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES IF YOU REQUIRE PRIORITY MAIL OR LIVE OUTSIDE THE USA. XX Contents: Comedies volume (with notes following each play): The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night or What You Will, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer-Night?s Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Winter?s Tale, Love?s Labour?s Lost, All?s Well That Ends Well. Tragedies volume (with notes): Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Macbeth, Othello, the Moor of Venice; King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida. Histories volume (with notes): King John, King Richard the Second, First Part of King Henry the Fourth, Second Part of King Henry the Fourth, King Henry the Fifth, King Henry the Sixth, King Richard the Third, King Henry the Eighth. Poetry and essays on Shakespeare. XX I believe that what makes these Tallis volumes especially interesting is that James Orchard Halliwell speaks of them as a "pirated cheap edition," and disclaimed all responsibility for it. Cf. London Times, October, 1850. [Note from Justin Winsor, Halliwelliana, a Bibliography of the Publications of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881]. This is not to say that the text of the plays is incorrect, just that Halliwell did not benefit from the publication of this edition and that attaching his name to the volumes, especially the notes, was misleading. The notes may very well have been taken from Halliwell?s numerous writings on Shakespeare, but the ?Life of Shakespeare? and some of the introductions in the Tallis edition were written by Henry Tyrrell. Seller Inventory # 001214
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