Smith G C Moore Edited By (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. hardback, octavo, a fine tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a fine pictorial dust jacket which is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 277pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardback. Browing to end inside covers. Shelf wear to edges and corners of cloth. Slight browning to spine of cloth. Green cloth with black lettering. Contents: General Preface. Editor's Preface. Introduction. Dramatis Personae. Henry the Fifth. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Index of Words. General Index. Addendum: Shakespeare's Stage in Its Bearing Upon His Drama by Prof. C. H. Herford. 286 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

hardcover. Condition: Good. ex library book, light amount of wear along the edges of the cover.

Large 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. li + [i] + 330 + [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth, gilt, with blind stamped borders enclosing device on front board, in price clipped dust wrapper. Some foxing of page edges and front flyleaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. Loosely inserted: two photographic prints, including portrait of Temple. Illustrated by 5 black and white plates (one folding facsimile), including portrait frontispiece, by genealogical tables, and by diagram in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. One of several editions of this famous courtship correspondence, in this case preserving the original spelling and punctuation. The main sequence contains 77 letters written 1652-54, preserved in the British Library (Add MS 33975), written by Dorothy Osborne (1627-95) who was prevented form marrying Sir William Temple (1628-99) for seven years. Temple, 1st baronet, with an Anglo-Irish background, was a diplomat serving Charles II, who took part in diplomatic missions involving the Dutch, including the marriage of Princess Mary to the Prince of Orange in 1677. In later years he employed the young Jonathan Swift as his secretary. The letters have been edited by George Charles Moore Smith (1858-1940,) literary scholar who was professor of English at the University of Sheffield and its predecessors, 1896-1924. The first edition was published 1628. SOCIAL HISTORY LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE 17TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED SOCIAL HISTORY. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Limited to 780 numbered copies, this being number 14. xvi, 327 pages, with a collotype facsimile, protected by a tissue guard, tucked into a pocket between the rear paste down and the back board. Harold Child's copy, with Bullen's presentation signature -"Harold Child d.d. A. H. Bullen" in ink fron end page under a tipped in one page ALS from A.H. Bullen, dated 13/X/13 (Oct. 13, 1913) and on Shakespeare Head Press letterhead - "My dear Child, I am sending you an advanced copy of Gabriel Harvey's 'Marginalia' , which has been in the stocks so long. Don't miss the collotype facsimile in the pocket at the end of the volume. In three weeks - not before, I fear - the book will be published, and a ? review ? will be distributed. ( One of course will be sent to The Times.)" Bullen then goes on to talk of 2 other future publications of interest to Child and The Times. A. H. Bullen, (Arthur Henry, 1857-1920) was a British editor, publisher, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press. Harold Child, (1869-1945) was a literary critic and writer who was prominent in the development of dramatic criticism, notably in his work on the history of Shakespearean production. A great British literary Association Copy. In quarter cloth over paper covered boards, Very Good, corners rubbed, label darkened yet legible, front hinge cracked and holding nicely, many pages with scholarly marginal notations in pencil and 3 sheets of motes in pencil laid in, most likely in Harold Child's hand. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Condition: very good. 22cm, xxiv,382 & vii,434pp., appendix, index, with two frontispieces, 10 plates, expertly rebacked, new endpapers, wine cloth with gilt titles and coat of arms on the upper cover.