The Poems and Plays of William Shakespeare [8 vols]; With a Life of the Author and a Selection of Notes, Critical, Historical, explanatory and Glossarial; selected from the Editions of Rowe, Pope, Johnson and Steevens, Malone ..... by Shakespeare, William - 1833

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Browne, H. K.. xiv, 625pp. Contemporary brown half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Tissued frontispiece, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz). First edition with the errata on page xiv; with "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27; with "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" from pages 469 to 473; and with signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" on page 371. With the bookplate of the Marchese di Calvatone Sommi Picenardi. Old bookstore label affixed on the front free endpaper. Leather shows some wear to spine ends and corners, light offsetting to some of the pages. Missing the errata slip. A very good copy. ; Octavo.

London: Printed for G. Strahan Et Al. Good+. 1741. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Giving an Imperial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable Transactions of Europe and discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682. Complete in eight volumes. Full leather. Spine has raised bands, gilt decorated panels & title. Vol. #1, 312pp with a frontispiece of Mahmud the Turkish Spy; #2, 276pp; #3, 287pp; #4, 288pp; #5, 276pp; #6, 264pp; #7, 248pp; #8, 280pp. Text blocks tight, clean and intact. Although some hinges are split or splitting, all covers are firmly attached. Spine ends have light wear. Prior owner signatures. Rare Section; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 2231 pages .

Manchester: J. Slack, 1818. Hardcover. 226pp. Full patterned calf stamped in gold on the front and the back panel, spine elaborately tooled in blind with black label lettered in gold affixed. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Napier Lawrence, Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate to front pastedown endpaper. Bound with Plebeian Politics, or the Principles and Practices of certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs Vulgarly Called Warrites. Printed and published by J. Slack, Manchester, 1818. 83pp. Frontispiece and six inserted plates. Mild edge wear else a fine copy. ; Octavo.

Antwerp: Petrum Bellerum (Peter Belleri), 1641. Ultima. Full Leather. Very Good. "Dramatica Poemata, Auctore D. Gulielmo Druraeo Nobili Anglo..", printed at Antwerp by Petrum Bellerum (Peter Belleri), MDCXLI (1641). "Editio ultima", i.e. "final edition", (originally published in the 1620's) In Latin. Collates: 4], 276,[1] Printer Marks. Old leather binding with wear along joints. Internally Very Good, some discoloration to title. Measures 3 x 5" "Gulielmus Duraeus wrote plays, that were acted at Douay, the beginning of the seventeenth century, called Aluredus, Mors and Reparatus." From the Retrospective Review, vol. 12, London, 1825. This volume contains all three of the named plays, tragi-comedies, of this very scarce playwright. .

London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First. Very Good. Phiz. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is considered Dickens' last picaresque novels It was originally serialized between 1842 and 1844 Dickens thought it was his best work to that time, but it was one of his least popular novels, judged by sales of the monthly instalments However, characters in the story gained fame, including Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp This is the first edition in book form 8vo; contemporary green pebbled sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges; It can be considered the "true" first edition, since it has the 13-line errata leaf as called for by Smith Other "firsts" have 14 lines The 13 line version is rarely seen It includes 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") It is toned at the extremities as usual Smith 7 624 pp.

Dublin, Ireland: R. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, 1735. Complete three volume set in contemporary calf bindings with armorial seal with the script "Coll. Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Reg. Elizab. Juxta Dublin" in gilt on each front and rear cover, raised spine bands bordered in gilt with gilt decoration in compartments, elaborate Jacobean armorial prize bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume, the name Richard Dickinson filled in by hand in each. Decorative design woodcuts in volume I, ten plates of "medals illustrated by the antient poets" in volume II, additional woodcuts of medals scattered in the text of volume III; [6], xvi, [3], 2-322; [13], 12-323; [9], 2-266, [10] pages; each volume with its own title page plus series title and advertisement in volume I. Externally scuffed with minor chipping to spine ends, joints cracked but secure, spine labels absent, spines lightly crackled from dryness but… Read More

Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1998. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Very Good. In clear mylar Brodart cover - Owners single name also. Flat signed by author on title page. First editions/first printings have no mention of any awards on the cover and have the number line ending with a 1 Publisher Notes A novel of angels, wine, and love without boundaries set in nineteenth-century Burgundy. One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard. Drunk, he stumbles on an angel: "Someone had set a statue down on the ridge. Sobran blinked and swayed. For a second he saw what he knew--gilt, paint and varnish, the sculpted labial eye of a church statue. Then he swooned while still walking forward, and the angel stood quickly to catch him." Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be a far more… Read More

London: Remington & Co Publishers, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. [vi], 270. Original grey cloth binding with black lettering and decoration to the front board, gilt lettering to the spine, a little general wear and some rubbing to extremities and joints, a couple of pin-prick holes to the front joint, cloth a little marked. Contents clean and tight, original patterned end papers to both front and back, somewhat browned also affecting the half-title page, paper to front hinge partially cracked but expertly repaired, contemporary pencil name and address to head of half-title page. A very good copy. A very scarce book - the first edition of the first novel of Anthony Hope (Hawkins) and paid for by Hope. He writes of it in his autobiography "I had already published one novel - on commission, at my own expense; it cost me fifty pounds, and the royalties amounted to thirteen" Few copies seem to have survived and Copac only list two British libraires with copies..

314 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover in pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition limited to 12,000 copies.Heavy Weather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on July 28, 1933 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and in the United Kingdom on August 10, 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It had been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post from 27 May to 15 July 1933. It is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales, the fourth full-length novel to be set there, and forms a direct sequel to Summer Lightning (1929), with many of the same characters remaining at the castle from the previous story. It also features the re-appearance by Lord Tilbury, who had previously appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and Sam the Sudden (1925).Condition:Previous owner's name on front end paper verso. Jacket with the number .25 under the unclipped price of $2.00, edges… Read More

London: London: Printed for the author, by T. Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand; and published by C. Chapple, Pall-Mall., 1808. 1st Edition . Full leather. Good. First edition; four volumes; octavo. 194; 210; 219; 258, [ii]pp. In contemporary full tree calf (worn with relatively minor loss to extremities), flat spines divided into six compartments by gilt double fillets with gilt lettered spine labels in second compartments. Moderate dampstaining to rear board and opening and closing leaves of volume one, with neat repairs to damp damage on front board of volume one; half titles present in all volumes; original title pages missing and resupplied in good facsimile on matching antique paper. Early pencil ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers. Overall a very presentable copy of this Regency novel telling the tale of the trials and injustices set upon the heroine Alzylia and the struggles of her lover Leonilus to liberate her. Its florid style and the occasional deployment of gothic devices… Read More