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	1	SHAKESPEARE, William; and Gollancz, Israel (preface and glossary) Coriolanus: The Temple Shakespeare Collection J M Dent and Co, London, 1920 Reprint, Leather, Good, No Jacket One of the approximately 40 volumes in the original set. Covers (burgundy limp morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial to front board) are worn and rubbed with leather beginning to flake. TEG. Engraved frontis, preface and glossary by Gollancz and bound-in ribbon bookmark and armorial to endpapers. Printed on fine laid paper with two-colour, decorative, engraved title pages. Headers and sub-heads are printed in red. Light tanning to pages. This volume was part of the library of Dorothy Seward Walton (circa 1918, d. Sep 1980), a poet and author of "The Hidden Stream, a verse play based on the lives of Saints Serf and Mungo. She was also wife of the Professor of Botany at Glasgow University. Purchased at auction, Fellows & Sons, Birmingham, UK, 27 Sept, 2005. A reading copy. 007233 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	2	SHAKESPEARE, William Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer's Night's Dream Blackie & Sons Ltd, London, First Thus, Limp Cloth, Varies, No Jacket Four of The Bard's greatest plays. Undated, they appear (from their art deco cover design) to be 1930s. "Plain-Text" editions indicates that there are no notes, intros, appencides, etc, only the text of the play itself. The red limp cloth cover has black titles and art deco design to front. All four volumes have edgewear and darkening due to sunning. All are foxed. Twelfth Night is ex-library. Midsummer's has a prize certificate tipped in. All have varying amounts of highlighting in pencil and/or ink. Good reading copies at least. 004548 Price: 15.00 GBP
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	3	SHAKESPEARE, William; and Gollancz, Israel (preface and glossary) Hamlet: The Temple Shakespeare Collection J M Dent and Co, London, 1924 Reprint, Leather, Good, No Jacket One of the approximately 40 volumes in the original set. Covers (burgundy limp morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial to front board) are worn and rubbed with leather beginning to flake. TEG. Engraved frontis, preface and glossary by Gollancz and bound-in ribbon bookmark and armorial to endpapers. Printed on fine laid paper with two-colour, decorative, engraved title pages. Headers and sub-heads are printed in red. Light tanning to pages. This volume was part of the library of Dorothy Seward Walton (circa 1918, d. Sep 1980), a poet and author of "The Hidden Stream, a verse play based on the lives of Saints Serf and Mungo. She was also wife of the Professor of Botany at Glasgow University. Purchased at auction, Fellows & Sons, Birmingham, UK, 27 Sept, 2005. A reading copy. 007231 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	4	SHAKESPEARE, William; and Gollancz, Israel (preface and glossary) King Henry VIII: The Temple Shakespeare Collection J M Dent and Co, London, 1919 Reprint, Leather, Good, No Jacket One of the approximately 40 volumes in the original set. Covers (burgundy limp morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial to front board) are worn and rubbed with leather beginning to flake. TEG. Engraved frontis, preface and glossary by Gollancz and bound-in ribbon bookmark and armorial to endpapers. Printed on fine laid paper with two-colour, decorative, engraved title pages. Headers and sub-heads are printed in red. Light tanning to pages. This volume was part of the library of Dorothy Seward Walton (circa 1918, d. Sep 1980), a poet and author of "The Hidden Stream, a verse play based on the lives of Saints Serf and Mungo. She was also wife of the Professor of Botany at Glasgow University. Purchased at auction, Fellows & Sons, Birmingham, UK, 27 Sept, 2005. A reading copy. 007232 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	5	SHAKESPEARE, William; and Gollancz, Israel (preface and glossary) King Henry VIII: The Temple Shakespeare Collection J M Dent and Co, London, 1899 Reprint, Leather, Good, No Jacket One of the approximately 40 volumes in the original set. Covers (burgundy limp morocco with gilt titles to spine and blind-stamped armorial to front board) are worn and rubbed with leather beginning to flake. TEG. Engraved frontis, preface and glossary by Gollancz and bound-in ribbon bookmark and armorial to endpapers. Printed on fine laid paper with two-colour, decorative, engraved title pages. Headers and sub-heads are printed in red. Light tanning to pages. A reading copy. 007515 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	6	SHAKESPEARE, William Merchant of Venice McDougall's Educational Co Ltd, London, First Thus, Limp Cloth, Very Good, No Jacket Undated, it appears to be 1930s. "Plain-Text" edition indicates that there are no notes, intros, appencides, etc, only the text of the play itself. The red limp cloth cover has black titles to front with some edgewear and darkening due to sunning, Textblock clean and tight except for pages lightly tanned, 004549 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	7	SHAKESPEARE, William The Comedies and Tragedies of Shakespeare: Complete and Unabridged, with Notes and Glossary, (3 Volumes of 4-Volume Set) Random House, New York, 1944 First Edition (apparently), Cloth, Very Good - to Very Good, No Jacket Chappell, Warren; Kredel, Fritz;, Each volume individually paginated - Comedies, Vol I designed and with art by Fritz Kredel - 545pp. Includes: The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Love's Labour Lost, and A Midsummer-Night's Dream. Tragedies, Vol I designed and with art by Warren Chappell - 579pp. Includes: Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. Tragedies, Vol II designed and with art by Warren Chappell - 580-1266pp. plus Glossary and Notes. Includes: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Othello, The Moor of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. All 3 volumes are uniformly bound in green cloth with blind-stamped logo to front board and gilt titles on red ground to spine. Covers of all three have varying degrees of soiling, edgewear and bumped corners (Tragedies Vol I has small closed tear to top of backstrip (outer part of the spine on which the title and author would be printed). Textblocks are clean and tight except for inked prior owner's name and date, "1947" A large and heavy set (2Kg) which will require additional shipping cost. Will consider selling individual volumes separately. 007668 Price: 15.00 GBP
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	8	SHAKESPEARE, William and Ervine, St John (intro) The Complete Works of Shakespeare Collins Clear Type Press, London, Limp Cloth, Fair, No Jacket 1312pp inc Introduction by St John Ervine and "Shakespeare and Bacon" by Sir Henry Irving, glossary, index to characters and 16 b&w and colour illustrations - Undated but probably early 1920s according to several university libraries. Covers (green limp leatherette with gilt image of Shakespeare to front) is edgeworn and the back strip (outer part of the spine on which the title and author would be printed) is missing, repleaced with brown packaging tape. TEG. Top corner of FEP cut away. Some foxing to Prelims, otherwise textblock is clean. A good reading copy. A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost. 004107 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	9	SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Odhams Press Ltd, London, First Thus, Soft Cover, Very Good, No Jacket 1312pp. inc index to characters and a glossary. 1st ed. 4 full colour plates inc frontis from paintings and eight B&W photographic plates. Pictorial endpapers. gilt titles and decoration on spine and top edge of pages. Undated but appears to be from late 1930s. Minor edgewear to covers and spine. Corners bumped. Page edges slightly soiled. Otherwise VG. A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost. Unlike some dealers, we don't describe our books with "maybes" (indicating they probably don't even have the book but will have to source it from a third party). The book is as described or your money back. A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost. 000908 Price: 15.00 GBP
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	10	SHAKESPEARE, William; Bell, Henry Glassford (biographical introduction) The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare with Biographical Introduction By Henry Glassford Bell (6-Volume Set) William Collins, Sons & Co, London, 1876 Decorative Cloth, Good+ To Very Good, No Jacket The complete 6-volume set with each volume individually paginated (cix, 2703pp) inc tissue-protected b&w frontis of Shakespeare, an index to characters and a glossary - This set is a "duplicate, with new titlepages, of the ... edition published by Porteous Brothers, Glasgow," 9 years earlier according to the British Library. Covers (brown cloth with gilt and black device and black rules to front board and gilt and black floral design and titles to spine) are soiled, and edgeworn. Chocolate brown EPs. FPDP has presentation bookplate dated "Xmas 82" to "Herbt Morriss". Ribbon book marks bound in. In Vol I pages xcvii-cviii are detached but present. In Vol II rear hinge is coming loose. Vol III has a scratch to the bottom page edges. Vol V has a 3-inch closed tear to the rear edge of the spine. A large and heavy set which will require additional shipping cost. 004641 Price: 35.00 GBP
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	11	SHAKESPEARE, William; Inglis, Robert The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare with Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice By Robert Inglis Gall & Inglis Ltd, London, First Edition, Decorative Cloth, Very Good, No Jacket 944pp inc frontis steel plate illustration from The Tempest plus three other steel plate illustrations - Undated but "Biographical Notice" is dated 1871 - This is a later edition of the approximately 1864 two-volume edition which had 8 steel engravings. Illustrations (frontis and 3 others - portrait of Shakespear and pictures from Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet) are foxed and spotted with second two having darkening (possibly damp stain) to the top of each. Covers (green cloth with bevelled edges and black and gilt decor and titles to front and spine) are soiled, and edgeworn. Yellow EPs. FPDP has presentation bookplate dated 1882 and pencilled notation. FEP has pencilled notations and is detached. Page edges (AEG) are soiled with a few pages having edgewear. Pencilled notations to a very few pages. All plates present (except where otherwise noted) and accounted for. 004389 Price: 15.00 GBP
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	12	SHAKESPEARE, William; Verity, A. W. (ed) The Tempest Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904 Reprint, Cloth, Good, No Jacket xliv, 182pp plus 8-page publisher's catalogue, inc indes, introduction, notes, glossary etc. - Covers (red cloth with black titles to front and spine) are soiled and edgeworn with bumped corners. Textblock relatively clean and tight except for some underlining and notation to a few pages. 004401 Price: 5.00 GBP
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	13	SHAKSPEARE (Shakespeare), William The Works of Shakspeare, with Life, Glossary, &c Suttaby & Co, London, Leather, Very Good, No Jacket 1124pp - The complete works of Shakespeare. Undated but appears to be late 19th Century. Covers (maroon leather with gilt rules and title to front board and backstrip missing) are edgeworn with bumped corners and gaffer (duct)-tape where backstrip should be and as reinforcement to inside front and rear covers. AEG. Decorated EPs. Textblock immaculate except for mild foxing to EPs. A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost. 004914 Price: 15.00 GBP
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For Example, J'accuse: To anyone who enjoys reading, to anyone who cherishes the arts, to anyone who loves doing research, there are only two mortal sins.

The first is book burning. And the second is censorship. Actually they're equally reprehensible.

Read more here.