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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Top edges gilt. Covers lightly soiled. Corners slightly bumped. Spines a bit sunned. Contents nice.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 508 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.15 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brown cloth boards with gilding on front/back boards and outer spines. Portrait of Laurence Sterne with protective tissue in Vol. One intact. Age wear and mild ink staining to protective tissue and title page of Vol. One. Ex-owners name written (hard) in pencil on front free endpapers of both volumes. Deckled edges. Gilded top edges. Bumping to spines and boards of both volumes. Soiling, rubbing and bumping to boards of both volumes. Age wear and minor soiling to text blocks. Age wear, foxing and soiling to paste-downs and free endpapers. Pages of both volumes look to be free of writing and/or highlighting. Age wear and soiling throughout text in both volumes.

Hardcover. The Edinburgh Folio. The Works of Shakespeare The Edinburgh Folio 40 volume complete set. Printed by T & A Constable of Edinburgh for Grant Richards of London in 1901. Signed by Constable to volume 1 with numbering of 989 of 1,000 copies produced. Fine printing on uncut art paper. Restrike of the Droeshout Engraving of Shakespeare portrait in front space of volume I, fine condition, crisp with tissue guard. Label of original seller to inside of front boards. Volume measure 13 x 8.25 inches.Clean pages, tight binding to text block, hinges weak with separation to volume I front board, varied soiling and stains to cloth boards, splitting and loss to spine clothPlease contact us about shipping costs for international orders of over-sized books or multi-book sets. We are happy to provide accurate quote prior to purchase. Clean pages, tight binding to te.

4°, Ledereinband. XXII, 203 Pp. With Drawings by the Society of Illustrators including E.A. Abbey, Cecil Aldin, Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Joseph Pennell, Jack Yeats, etc. Original prints by J.R.Way, Robert W. Macbeth, W.L. Wyllie, and Sir Francis Seymour Haden. Bound in full vellum, a.e.g. some foxing, head of back tored, otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Limited Edition. These are the Edinburgh Folios and are of limited edition of 1000 copies. These are unnumbered. All bound in original paper-covered boards. Bindings are tight although paper on spines has peeled away partially on 4 volumes and entirely on 2 volumes.Some tanning to endpapers and spotting to covers, however interior pages are clean and bright. Six volumes: Vol. II Part 6, Much Ado About Nothing; Vol. II Part 7, Love's Labour's Lost; Vol. II Part 10, As You Like It; Vol. VI, Part 25, Troilus and Cressida; Vol. III, Part 13, Twelfth Night; Vol. III, Part 12, All's Well That Ends Well. Vol II, Part 6 has frontispiece of the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare with tissue-guard. Very scarce.

Limited edition of 1000 copies of which this is number 86, each volume signed by the publisher to limitation page;10 vols, 4to (33 x 22 cm); engraved frontispiece to each volume with tissue-guards (first volume captioned), some offsetting from ribbon bookmark to relevant leaves of each volume, small closed tears to the edges of the following pages p.281 of vol. I, p.96 of vol. II, p.197 of vol. III, p.279 of vol. VI, p.147 of vol. VIII, p.207 of vol. X, all minor (approx. 1-2cm or less) and none affecting text, small hole to p.126 of vol. II not affecting text, occasional spot or mark throughout, as expected with age, otherwise a bright and clean set in very good condition; finely-bound by Morrell, modern half brown morocco over brown cloth boards lined in gilt, spine in 6 compartments with two-line gilt-panelled border, ribs and lettering in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers with some light offsetting to edges, slight spotting to page edges, very small hole to cover of vol. V, largely unnoticeable, some general minor signs of wear, primarily to extremities, otherwise very handsome; [x], 353pp, [1]pp, [x], 368pp, [2]pp, [x], 326pp, [x], 335pp, [1]pp, [x], 358pp, [vi], 304pp, [viii], 347pp, [1]pp, [x], 362pp, [viii], 383pp, [1]pp, [x], 317pp, [1]pp. A handsome, finely-bound set of the collected works of William Shakespeare.