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The Complete Works of Shakespeare from the Original Text: Three Volume Set
by Shakespeare, William / Knight, Charles (Editor)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No dust jackets as issued
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Martin, Johnson and Company Steel, 1800. Edition not stated, assumed late 1800s. Hardcover. Full leather on thick boards. Good/No dust jackets as issued. Quarto. 11 x 8.75 inches. Complete three-volume set. Blind embossed dark brown full leather on thick beveled boards, gilt double-ruled edges, blind inside dentelles, five raised fillet bands with gilt-stamped lettering in two chambers. Original owner's name (O. B. Sappington) gilt stamped at foot of spine. All edges gilt. Comedies volume, pages [liv] 1-621; Historical Plays volume, pages 623-1097; Tragedies volume, pages 1099-1725. "Carefully Collated and Compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; and A Life of the Great Dramatist, by Charles Knight. Illustrated with New and Finely Executed Steel Engravings, Chiefly Portraits in Character of Celebrated American Actors, Drawn from Life, Expressly for This Edition." Pages age toned and foxed. Cases edgeworn and quite rubbed. Front hinge and bands of Tragedies volume broken with text block separated from front board and back strip. Back hinge secure. Please note: This is an oversized or heavy item; additional shipping charges will apply.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000078
- Title
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare from the Original Text: Three Volume Set
- Author
- Shakespeare, William / Knight, Charles (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Full leather on thick boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jackets as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition not stated, assumed late 1800s
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Martin, Johnson and Company Steel
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1800
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, Plays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Drama;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
All listed items are physically in our possession and will normally ship within 48 hours, securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Within the U.S., we ship USPS with insurance against loss or damage. Tracking number provided. Orders with destinations outside the U.S., expedited shipments, oversized/heavy items or sets will require an update of shipping charges before the sale is completed.
In the unlikely event of a purchase proving unsatisfactory, the item may be returned, in its original condition, for a full refund limited to the original price paid. We would ask that you notify us by email of your intention to return within 10 working days of receipt of the item. Safe return shipment is the client's responsibility. We will issue reimbursement within 14 days of receiving the item back. We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value, if the loss resulted from unnecessary handling by the client.
About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in November of 2008, a "mom & pop" business, locally owned and independent, with the proprietors, Nathan Montoya and Anne Vestuto, living above the shop. For fifteen years, as a full-service general bookstore, we offered a carefully curated selection of quality used and new books.
In January of 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare and antiquarian book shop located on the second floor of our building. We now offer a modest, but growing, eclectic selection of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books and broadsides from Larkspur Press.
We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand.
We invite you to visit our website or make an appointment to visit us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
In January of 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare and antiquarian book shop located on the second floor of our building. We now offer a modest, but growing, eclectic selection of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books and broadsides from Larkspur Press.
We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand.
We invite you to visit our website or make an appointment to visit us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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