Shakespeare from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

London: Printed for, and Under the Direction of John Bell, British Library, 1787. First Edition. 12mo. Two works in one volume, 146 and 110 pages Samuel Johnson announced his intention to edit Shakespeare's plays with his associate George Steevens. He considered no first rate work had understood Macbeth so he began by letting the scholarly world know he intended… Read more about this item

London, [1797]: Printed for C. Cooke. 12mo. Cooke's Edition. 214(1)pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title page. Folger notes that the date is conjectured from engravings. Added-engraved title page reads: Shakespeare's works: forming part of Cooke's pocket edition of the original & complete works of select British poets: or, entertaining poetical library: containing the most esteem'd poetic… Read more about this item

New York; 1872 and 1874: D. Appleton and Co. Small Octavo. A new edition in six volumes consisting of the Histories, Comedies and Tragedies.illustrated frontispieces to each play. Bound in 3/4 black pebble grained morocco over marbed paper covered baords with matching endpapers and all edges marbled, raised bands, compartments lettered and fully decorated in gilt, Only a few… Read more about this item

London: Printed by Harding and Wright for R. Priestley and R. Lea, 1810. Octavo. xxiii, 296 pages. Elizabeth Robinson Montague was known as the "Queen of the Bluestockings" whose major place in the literary circles of eighteenth-century England included such celebrities as Dr. Johnson, Lord Lyttelton as well as the Garricks and Sternes. Introduction -- On dramatic poetry --… Read more about this item

London; 1783 and 1784: Printed for the Author. Octavo. . Vols. 1: Portrait frontispiece, xxiv, 451(1)pp. errata and with subscriber's list. dated 1784. Vol. 2: 425pp. dated 1783. Vol 3: 508pp, dated 1784. The subscriber's list in Vol. I has listed Dr. [Samuel] Johnson, James Boswell, Dr. [Benj.] Franklin, Samuel Ireland (The Forger), Mrs. Siddons, and several others as… Read more about this item

London: Martin Secker, 1912. Limited Edition. Octavo. 3 volume set, volumes mostly unopened, with 3 frontispieces, limited to 1,000 copies. In the Last of the De Mullins, produced by the Stage Society in December 1908 and published in 1909, Hankin's merciless realism went even further than before in telling the story of a 'new woman' opposed by her family… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1931. Octavo. 375 pages. In W.W. Greg's review he notes that this work shows in the autumn of 1596 one 375 pages. In W.W. Greg's review he notes that this work shows in the autumn of 1596 one William Wayte swore the peace against William Shakespeare, Francis Langley (owner of the Swan Theatre) and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy, 1900. Quarto. Connoisseur edition issued for private circulation. 12 parts in portfolio each containing twelve loose plates, except the first which contains fourteen. A delightful group of plates covering much of the Shakespeare corpus including locations, autographs, and the plays. When the College English Association devoted its 1984 issue to Shakespeare, they used several of the… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807. First Editions. Octavo. In two volumes: xv, 526pp and 499pp. (1)pp. errata. wood-engraved illustrations by J. Berryman . A beautiful set of the first edition with Douce's classic study with all nine original illustrations. One of the most influential works on Shakespeare criticism that deals with the controversial issues such as the… Read more about this item

London: Printed for C. Bathurst, et All, 1773. Small Octavos. . In 8 volumes, portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare at the age of 40 and two title pages in volume 1, with other portraits by J. Hall. The last volume contains a bibliography of early editions (commencing with the Jaggard canon). It is divided into three sections, headed: 'Editions of… Read more about this item

London; 1869 and 1871: Bell and Daudy. Octavo. A new edition. Two volumes bound in one. 268 pages. Originally published in 1817, clearly, they were then combined to deal with the great literature in the Age of Elizabeth (but as he notes in his introduction, he surveys in the first chapter the English plays and poems from the beginning… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Co, for Archibald Constable and Co and Manners and Miller, 1814. Octavo. [4] 56 pages. One of the scarcest studies on the text of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher. This was produced in an edition of 100 copies and Morehead uses the name Martin Scriblerus. Bound in newer paper wraps, brown binding tape and new… Read more about this item

London; Dated 1805 But (ca.1870): For Thomas Goddard. Small Octavo. Two frontispiece's (1 folding), 317pp., (17)pp. index, 3 other folding plates, and a 2 page typed letter bound in after page 312 which is basically a minor biographical note about Ireland by J.R. Smith, in which he cites Bibliotheca Cantiana. This copy, like the Huntington's appears to be a… Read more about this item

London; Nd(ca.1880): Swan Sonnenschein & Company. `/`. Octavo. In ten volumes edited by Alexander Dyce, fourth edition reprinted from the third edition. The notes, which in the previous editions were place at the end of each play, are now, for the convenience of Shakespearean students, printed at the foot of the page. illustrated with 180 full page photogravures… Read more about this item

London; Nd(ca.1920): C. Arthur Pearson. Small Quarto. In three volumes: 745 (1)pp.; 770(1)pp. and 815(1)pp. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. One of the loveliest 19th century editions of Shakespeare in the original cloth which usually had to be rebound but here is beautifully preserved save for the corners which show a bit of… Read more about this item

London; 1797 and 1799: Printed for Thomas Egerton. Octavo. In two volumes, 628pp. and 654[2]pp. errata. These two volumes are among the several dozen major contributions to the issues of Shakespeare forgeries. George Chalmers speculated that the sonnets were addressed to Queen Elizabeth in an emulation of Spenser. He rejects the conclusions of Malone and Steevens that they could… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering, 1826. Small Octavo. First collected edition. In three volumes, Half-titles, Vol. I: 284 [xxiii contains the life of Christopher Marlowe) Vol. II: p.201[5]-290-401 and Vol. III: 584pp. [ Vol. I: p. 199 misnumbered 197, p. 238 misnumbered 239, p. 239 misnumbered 238. Vol. II: p. 393 misnumbered 339. Vol. III: p. 572 misnumbered 72. Vol: II… Read more about this item

London: Printed for the Shakespeare Association at the Oxford University Press, 1930. Quarto. 16 pages, 26 pages of plates. Facsimiles of the Revels accounts for 1604-5 and 1611-12 with some associated papers of later date, concerning the authenticity of the so-called Cunningham forgeries, written chiefly in reply to S.A. Tannenbaum's Shakspere forgeries in the Revels accounts. Includes bibliographical references.… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967. First Edition. Large Octavo. Inscribed by the author to a close friend.314 pages, index, bibliography, Index of First Lines. This is an indispensable reference work to all the available textual, critical, musical, and dramatical commentary on the seventy songs that by the author's count, appear in the canon of Shakespeare's Plays. The songs… Read more about this item

London: Ruper Hart Davis, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by the author dated Christmas 1961. 335 pages, index of plays, persons, subjects, and an appendix. Illustrated with a large number of detailed and lucid reconstructions drawn to the author's specifications by Nicolas Woo. Hotson found additional documents on the staging of Shakespeare's plays. Cosmic symbolism is fully developed and… Read more about this item