Mimes Sacred & Profane by Pepler, H. D. C - 1932

Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Saint Aldgates and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1933 A good to very good copy of the 2 volume limited edition of Malory's epic work, taken from the only remaining copy of the Wynkyn de Worde printing housed by the John Rylands Library in Manchester. In their original half morocco bindings with gilt titles to spine. Copy no 139 of 350 (370 originally published with 20 not for public sale). Both bindings are clean with very light marking to the cloth. In Vol I there is light rubbing to spine ends and corners, most pronounced at the top front corner. Vol II has some fraying at the top of the spine and a little leather loss at the joint with the top of the front board. There is more pronounced rubbing at the top corners. Both have rubbing to front edges. Top page edges gilt, remainder untrimmed. The endpapers are strongly marbled and there is a little splitting to the front endpaper of Vol II where the damage can be seen to the top of the… Read More

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1975. Limited Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Issued in an edition of 190 copies. Bound in publisher's mauve Japanese silk stamped in silver, in silver slipcase with title label on spine. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase with mild shelf wear. A beautifully designed book, and the third title published by the Arion Press.

1790 1ed Comedies of Gherardo Rossi Italian Theater Plays Bassano 4v BINDING

Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi was an 18th-century Italian poet and playwright best known for his 16 comedies. These works were published in a fine, four-volume set printed in Bassano – a beautiful example of late 18th-century Italian theater!

Item number: #13130
Price: $499
ROSSI, Gio Gherardo de
Commedie.
Bassano, 1790. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes
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Vol. I – [2], XX, 306
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Vol. II – 351, [1]
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Vol. III – 359, [1]
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Vol. IV – 276
· Provenance: Handwritten: G.W. Aylmer, 1820
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.75in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm)
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Copy of the the original playbill of the first performance of "Seven Keys to Baldpate." The play premiered on Broadway on September 22, 1913 at the Astor Theatre and ran for 320 performances. This 1913-14 play by George Cohan is based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival. Cohan adapted it as a film in 1917, and it was adapted for film six more times, and later for TV and radio. Bound in full leather. NF condition. Rare.

1910 Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor Illustrated Hugh Thomson ART Falstaff

'The Merry Wives of Windsor' was a 1602 comedy by the legendary playwright William Shakespeare. This play is the continuation of the story of the legendary fat knight Sir John Falstaff who first appeared in both parts of 'Henry IV' and 'Henry V'. This particular 1910 edition of 'Merry Wives' was illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Item number: #17248
Price: $550
SHAKESPEARE, William
The merry wives of Windsor
London : William Heinemann, 1910.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o viii, 170, [2]
o 40 leaves of color plates
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
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Decorative cloth
· Size: ~10.25in X 8in (26cm x 20.5cm)
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London: Printed for C. Chapple, Pall Mall, by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1808. Paper-covered boards. Fine. First Edition of this scarce history, a "biographical and critical account of all dramatic writers from 1660 and also of the most distinguished performers from the days of Shakespeare to 1807, and a history of the country theatres." Complete in two volumes, paginated (somewhat irregularly) continuously. 12mo (173 x 101mm): xii, 622, 629-630; [3], 625-1048pp, with 17 engraved plates, comprising interior views of the three Theatres Royal and one of the exterior of the King's Theatre, Haymaket, as well as portraits of the author and leading actors and actresses. Recently rebound to style in pale blue paper-covered boards with cream-colored spines and title and volume printed paper lettering pieces; all edges speckled red. Internally, virtually pristine, the bindings tight, straight and square, the pages and plates clean and crisp… Read More

London: The Basilisk Press, 1975. Folio [measures 638mm x 455mm], quarter morocco and marbled boards, pp 30, double page map + 25 fine mounted colour plates with accompanying text, (one plate slightly waved). otherwise a very good copy in fitted cloth-covered box (a little marked and faded). [Limited edition of 515 copies - this being number 200] . [Extremely heavy - extra postage will be required.]. First Edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good.

Llandogo, near Monmouth, Gwent, United Kingdom: Old Stile Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Signed by Author. A sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. The publisher has featured linen-covered boards with a fine line drawing by the artist and set that into a recessed panel on the upper portion of the cover. The spine features gilt titling. The front endpapers by Graham have been printed in four to six colors each, showing a double-page woodcut of Volklingen, Saarstahl, Germany. The rear endpapers show a double-page color woodcut, too, but featuring Skinners Bottom, Mawla, Cornwall. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Housed in an also nearly As New condition slip-case, single and elegant. Kippers & Sawdust is a stunning work by the master printmaker Rigby Graham, featuring four… Read More

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, 2005. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. De Bezige Bij. small 8vo. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. 104 pages. One of fifty signed and numbered copies. The edition of De Bezige Bij, which appears at the same time as the commercial edition of 'From a finger does not fall', was bound by hand in October 2005 in a whole calfskin binding and placed in a house with hand-marbled paper by Karli Frigge. The edition is interleaved with loose relics, which the author and photographer have included. Each copy contains an original print of one of the photos from the book and a poem in handwriting. The edition was provided by Mooi Boeken / Pau Groenendijk (www.mooieboeken.nl). Very light rubbing along the hinges of the spine, else near fine.

Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1939. full green morocco with onlaid designs by Paul Nash incorporating Shaw's initials and having different designs on the front and back in orange morocco - a signed Gregynog binding. Gregynog Press. tall 8vo. full green morocco with onlaid designs by Paul Nash incorporating Shaw's initials and having different designs on the front and back in orange morocco - a signed Gregynog binding. [xi] 188, [1] pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies. (Harrop, Zilverdistel no.40). Frontispiece portrait of Shaw by John Farleigh. Head of spine worn, with some scattered wear to spine. General shelfwear. Boards somewhat bowed. As is common with this title there is offsetting from the leather turn-ins to the front and rear endpaper edges. Edges of preliminary pages show small tears, else the interior is in fine condition. With the bookplate of Robin Satinsky on the front pastedown. Printed in Baskerville type on very pale green hand-made Arnold and Foster paper. Zero fading… Read More