The Plays and Poems

London. William Pickering. 1825. Sumptuously bound in period Full scarlet crushed levant morocco. Blind rules to front and rear covers with gilt tooled harp device. Ornate gilt tooled fleural and harp motifs to spines. Gilt titles. Elaborate gilt tooled inner-dentelles. Elaborate gilt-tooled edges. aeg. Octoavo. (182 x 111mm), The very rare and significant 'Wreath Edition', containing the attributed… Read more about this item

London: Printed and published by A. J. Valpy,, 1832. Attractively bound First Valpy edition of Shakespeare's complete works, intended to be "the most useful, ornamental, and economical edition" of his writing (p. vi). The publisher, Abraham John Valpy (1786-1854), hoped that he "might rival the fame of Aldus and Stephanus as a printer and editor of classical works... For… Read more about this item

UK: Routledge, 1900. New Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. New Edition Circa 1900. Undated, A wonderful decorative six volume complete edition of the poems and plays of Shakespeare. Books are near fine and very bright and clean. Contents very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 6692… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering; Nattali and Combe; Talboys and Wheeler of Oxford,, 1825. The elegant deluxe issue First Pickering edition of the complete works; the handsomely bound and fully illustrated deluxe issue, containing 39 plates. In contrast, the trade issue had just a single frontispiece for illustration. Part of Pickering's "wreath series" of the classics, the edition was produced in… Read more about this item