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Venus And Adonis, Passionate Pilgrim, Lucrece, Sonnets, Pericles; Being reproductions in facsimile of the first editions, dating respectively as per the above titles: 1593, 1594, 1609, 1609, 1599 from the unique copy in the Malone collection in the Bodleian library and the Christie Miller Library in Britwell
by Shakespeare, William [Sidney Lee, Editor]
- Used
- Condition
- Orig. full vellum, gilt front cover panel with arabesques at the corners. Very good. 5 vols
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. leather_bound. Orig. full vellum, gilt front cover panel with arabesques at the corners. Very good. 5 vols. Uniformly 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 1000 signed by Sidney Lee in the Venus And Adonis volume. Pagination's respectively reflect Lee's Introduction and Bibliography as per titles noted: 75, 57, 55, 71, 48 with 6 page list of Subscribers. The collotype facsimile leaves of the first editions "which found no place in the first folio" [JAGGARD] of the original Shakespeare text appear following the pagination's noted previously. With half-titles, all five volumes the provenance of William Andrews Clark, Jr. together with his red leather gilt decorated and lettered bookplates on the inside front covers. The Library at UCLA bears his name. Lacks original ties, boards are splayed, endpapers toned, but all covers are bright and clean.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22611
- Title
- Venus And Adonis, Passionate Pilgrim, Lucrece, Sonnets, Pericles; Being reproductions in facsimile of the first editions, dating respectively as per the above titles: 1593, 1594, 1609, 1609, 1599 from the unique copy in the Malone collection in the Bodleian library and the Christie Miller Library in Britwell
- Author
- Shakespeare, William [Sidney Lee, Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. full vellum, gilt front cover panel with arabesques at the corners. Very good. 5 vols
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Private Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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ardsley, New York
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Glossary
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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