Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet by Shakespeare, William, W. G. Simmonds - 1910

New York: American Book Co.. 1898. Trade paperback. Good.. 287 p. ill. English classics. Includes Illustrations. . two pages inside cover are torn out .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. Hardcover . Used - near fine. lg 8vo; 165pp. Full royal blue leather, in the style of the Easton Press, with gilt decoration and lettering. Just a hint of rubbing/cracking to spine bands (seen only in a very good light, on close inspection).

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. Hardcover. Good. Original silver lettered and decorated leather, decorated endpapers, gilt cuts, ribbon marker, (tipp-in) colour illustrations, large 8vo. Limited edition, facsimile of the 1910 edition.; 1983 limited facsimile of original 1910 edition

London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. c. 1910. First edition. With thirty very fine and impressive tipped-in colourplate illustrations by W. G. Simmonds, each with captioned tissue guards, and with a decorated title-page printed in black and red. 4to, very finely bound in full red polished calf, the boards with triple gilt ruled borders, the spine with gilt chained raised bands between beautifully gilt framed compartments contained theatrically appropriate central gilt tools of either a goblet and dagger or crossed swords, two compartments with black morocco labels gilt trimmed and lettered, the board edges and wide turn-ins gilt tooled in a thistle motif, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. xxvii, [1], 165pp. A very good and especially handsome copy, the text is solid and clean but for some neat underlining in the introduction, the plates are all bright and fine, the frontispiece plate with a bit of unobtrusive creasing to a lower corner, all others pristine. The binding is very attractive, the lower hinge… Read More