Illustrated with 8 colour plates, done with Tempura by Armfield. Two are double page. Gilt decorated cloth covers. 4to. Not date but c. 1922. Some offsetting/rubbing to the two sets of facing plates. Some mild staining to cover. Toning to spine. Rubbin [more...]
Striking edition of Wilde's controversial play. Featuring the b/w illustrations of Beardsley that adorned the first english edition of 1894. Originally written in Wilde's serviceable French, an effective translation proved difficult. Here Walker provides a [more...]
First edition. With dramatic b/w illustrations by Lawson. Tartan paper to boards, quarter cloth. large 8vo. Rubbing to edges. Toning to spine. Occasional very light spotting within. Otherwise clean and binding tight. Good+ [more...]
First edition of Steen's first collection of plays, featuring colour illustrations by the author of characters and costumes. Includes a signed letter by Steen, describing her work to an admirer. 4to. DJ is toned, with tears to edges and loss to spine, rear [more...]
Definitive biography of the mercurial Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. With b/w plates. Complete with slipcase. Dust jackets are price-clipped with mild bumping and shelf-wear. Rubbing to slipcase. Previous owner's name to ffeps. Volumes otherwise c [more...]
Quarter cloth binding of Galsworthy's collected plays, including The Silver Box and Strife. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Blind stamped decoration. 8vo. Toning to front cover. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
'Cranford series' edition of Sheridan's two great comedy dramas. With b/w illustrations throughout by Edmund J. Sullivan. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Tissue guarded frontipiece. 8vo. Mild bumping to corners. Light fading [more...]
Charming collection of quotes from Shakespeare that touch or lie somewhere between the extremes of Love and Hate. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Small 32mo. With pictorial covers. Crease to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Charming little Folio Society edition of Poe's great gothic poem that first appeared in the American Review in 1845 and helped cement the Author's reputation. With b/w illustrations by George Tute. (115x85mm) Bound in fetching black silk Moire with Raven th [more...]
Charming Oxford Miniature edition of Browning's selected poems, including pieces from Pippa Passes, Poems, Men and Women and more. Red leather with all edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Small 32mo. (110x75mm). Rubbing to edges, slight cracking to tail front hin [more...]
(excluding the eight dramas). Handsome cloth binding with blindstamped decoration to cover and gilt to spine. Tissue guarded frontisportrait. Toning to spine. Previous owner's name and bookplate to end-papers. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of four of Ibsen's key works. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Tony Eubanks. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Nicely produced edition of two of Congreve's late 17th century plays, featuring b/w illustrations and decorations by John Kettelwell. Fetching purple cloth boards with gilt decoration. Illustrated end-papers. Fore-edge rough cut. Complete with DJ. Some mi [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Collection of short biographies of notable acting figures at the start of the 20th century, with colour portraits. Includes Charles Wyndham and many others. beveled edges. large 4to. Rubbing and toning to spine. Marking and staining to [more...]
Pleasant soft leather suede binding of Browning's verse drama Pippa Passes. With frontispiece. No date but c. 1910. covers have some rubbing and nicks but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Broadway booklets edition of Macaulay's dramatic historical poems based on heroic episodes from early roman history, engraving to soft cover. Spine is rubbed with some loss. Binding starting but contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Shakespeare Head Press; Odhams; Basil Blackwell 1947
Printed in double columns. With all Shakespeare's plays and poetical works, including the Sonnets. Sunning to spine. Wear, bumping and rubbing to edges, Light foxing to fore-edge. Binding sound. Fair+ [more...]
Collection of Dobson's verse from various works. With 25 b/w illustrations by Bernard Partridge. First thus. Red cloth with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name to half-title. Some fading to spine. Rubbing to joints and corners. Mild t [more...]
Souvenir program for the 1949 first run of Novello's musical. With cast list, synopsis and b/w pictures of the performance. Soft velvet wraps with glassine jacket. Rubbing to edges. Jacket creased with tears and loss. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of Fagles' 1966 translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia triology: Agamemnon; Libation Bearers and Eumenides. Wih an introduction by Peter Levi and black white illustrations by Laurence Preece. Decorated canvas covers and end-papers. [more...]
