Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by Dyce, The Rev. Alexander - 1968-01-01

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856 Book. Good. Hardcover. Aging includes scuffs, normal soils, some scratches and edge wear, including worn and exposed corners and chipped spine ends; text block is in very good condition. A collection of poetry. 453 pages..

London: Printed for The Shakespeare Society, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Original blind stamped cloth-bound hardback; in very good shape: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks, just age toned and slightly foxed. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 230mm x 150mm. Collation: pp. vii, 95. Tidy book in very presentable condition.

London: John Russell Smith, 1853 pp 156 + [2] + 20 Internally very good subject to slight browning, binding firm, cloth cover rather faded, short closed tear to join between spine and rear board, paper label on spine very worn.

Edward Moxon, 1843. hardcover. Acceptable. . 11 volume set complete. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Volume 1 spine is rebound. Volume 2 back cover is missing. Pages are clean and intact.

London: Edward Moxon, 1843. Hardcover. The joints of the leather are worn and beginning to split with two back covers nearly detached and a repair attempted at some point on the inside back joint of volume 1; some rubbing to spine tips, spines, and the corners; foxing to the first few beginning and ending pages, including the frontispiece in each volume, else internally very good and clean; all said, this is still a handsome set. Photographs upon request. 11 volumes, bound in full marbled calf, five raised bands, extensive tooling and gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers.

Edward Moxon. Collectible - Good. London: Edward Moxon, 1843-1846. 1st edition. 11 volumes. 8vo hardcovers. Good set. Each are edge and shelfworn with light cover stains. Most volumes have a small inscription to the front endpage. Volume One has a split along the front joint. A couple of volumes have weaking, but intact, hinges. (18th century, plays, english plays, drama) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

London: William Pickering, 1831. Two volumes in fine stamp-signed bindings by Hayday of full polished calf, gilt backs, marbled end papers, tops gilt. Very Good, title labels mostly lost, hinges showing some wear, scattered spotting to end papers only, corners rubbed, small stamp of Tilden Library dated 1895 verso of title pages. Interiors clean and lovely. A rather uncommon Pickering publication with a quite interestin New York City provenance. Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886) was a former New York governor who had run for U.S. president in 1876. He went down in history as the first man to win the popular vote, but lose the electoral vote. His personal book collection comprising some 20,000 volumes, along with a good portion of his estate became the driving force behind the foundation of the New York Public Library. . First Collected Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Chapman And Hall, 1875. 9 volume set, 1975-6, bound by Zaehnsdorf in half blue leather and matching cloth boards, top edge gilt, rubbed at the edges, bookplate of Claude Goldsmid-Montefiore to the endpapers, and contemporary inscription dated 1875, engraved portrait frontis to Volume I, text clean, slightl browning to the page edges, a heavy set that will require an additional shipping fee for some international destinations please contact for details. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

london: Edward Moxon, 1857 Alexander Dyce 1798-1869 dramatic editor and literary historian. He took holy orders after graduating from Exeter College Oxford in 1819. Published extensively across the full range of the Tudor literary scene from the early 1820s In 1857 his edition of Shakespeare was published by Moxon in which his wide reading in Elizabethan literature enabled him to explain much that was formerly obscure in Shakespeare. Volume 1 - pp. i-cxci the prelims covering the life of Shakesoeare and his will. The early editions, Commendatory verses etc. pp. 1-351 The Plays The Tempest - The Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Merry Wives of Windsor - Measure for Measure - The Comedy of Errors Volume 2 - pp' 1-500 Much Ado about Nothing - Loves Labour's Lost - A Midsummer Nights Dream - The Merchant of Venice -- As You Like It - The Taming of the Shrew - All's Well the Ends Well Volume 3 - pp. 1-555 Twelfth Night - The Winter's Tale - King John - King Richard the Second - The first part of King Henry the… Read More