SHAKESPEARES VENUS AND ADONIS... LUCRECE... THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM... SONNETS...: Pericles... - Facsimiles of the original printings
by Shakespeare
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
COSWAY STYLE (BAYNTUN-RIVIERE)
SHAKESPEARES VENUS AND ADONIS... LUCRECE... THE PASSIONATE
PILGRIM... SONNETS...
Pericles... - Facsimiles of the original printings
Published Oxford, Clarendon Press 1905
5 volumes bound together. Edited by Sidney Lee, signed by him on the limitation leaf.
24.5x19 cm (9¾x7½"). bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full Morocco, elaborately ruled in
gilt, inset color portrait, raised bands, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, inner Morocco
panels, silk moiré endpapers, gilt dentelles, slipcase. No. 634 of 1000 copies.
Photographic facsimiles with commentary of these five early printings of William
Shakespeare, being the first editions of each text, issued between 1593 and 1609.
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- Bookseller
- E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC] (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 520
- Title
- SHAKESPEARES VENUS AND ADONIS... LUCRECE... THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM... SONNETS...
- Author
- Shakespeare
- Format/Binding
- COSWAY STYLE (BAYNTUN-RIVIERE)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cosway, Shakespeare
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Morocco
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