Search Results: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies by William Shakespeare

London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (Oakland: Octavo), 1623; 2001. 1st edition. Other Binding. As New/No Jacket (as issued). As new copy of a remarkable digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of perhaps the finest surviving copy of the First Folio, from the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size) of every page of the original edition (photographed as if the actual book were open before the viewer) as well as a complete searchable transcription of the text and scholarly essays by Arthur Freeman, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller, and Peter W. M. Blayney.

London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (Oakland: Octavo), 1623; 2001. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). New copy (in shrinkwrap) of a remarkable digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of perhaps the finest surviving copy of the First Folio, from the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size) of every page of the original edition (photographed as if the actual book were open before the viewer) as well as a complete searchable transcription of the text and scholarly essays by Arthur Freeman, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller, and Peter W. M. Blayney.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Robert Tyas, 1844. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. These three volumes are in good condition. Wear present to the boards and spine which are fair as shown in the photos. Internally the pages are very good, excellent for their age. Please see the detailed photos for further information.

UK: William Orr, 1855. Three solidly-bound volumes in red cloth which is worn and stained in places, all spines discoloured, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, spine of vol. 1 has a 1.5 inch tear to the cloth, inexpertly repaired, dust and soiling to edges, flourishing ink signatures to the yellow-sided prelim of each volume (Charles B Jago or Iago!?), vol. 1 has an ink inscription to verso of frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, and shows through at the front; delightful plates by Kenny Meadows, some dated 1845, must have been originally published separately before being bound in, and all have a rounded waterstain to top or bottom margin, and are browned to the edges; many equally delightful black and white illustrations in the text; pages generally in good plus condition, with some browning, particularly those opposite the plates which have offset marginal discolouring; text in double-columns. Heavy items which will require extra postage/insurance.. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Kenny Meadows… Read More

1939. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Edited by Herbert Farjeon. Tall 4tos. 37 volumes. Original cloth-backed boards. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1939-1940. Limited to 1,950 sets designed by Bruce Rogers. A very good set.

London: for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders,, 1685. The fourth folio, the last of the 17th-century editions of Shakespeare's works and the most grandly produced, this issue with the imprint naming Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, the booksellers to whom Herringman had entrusted his retail business. There were three issues, with slightly different imprints. John Macock printed the title page for Herringman's copies, "to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders". Robert Roberts printed the title pages for the other issues from a single type setting, with either three or four booksellers named. There is no known precedence among the three issues, but Macock's title is much the rarer of the two settings; the online Shakespeare Census locates thirty-five extant copies, only five in private hands. The 1623 first folio, edited by John Heminge and Henry Condell, contained thirty-six plays, to which seven plays were added in 1664 by Philip Chetwin for the… Read More