2001, ISBN: 379839f9ede12b0b0d22729f976b4b8c

London: F. C.and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; J. Scatcherd; Longman and Co,; T. Cadell; Etc, 1823. Complete Set of 8 Volumes. Well Illustrated with 36 Engraved Plates, one for ea… Mehr…

London: F. C.and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; J. Scatcherd; Longman and Co,; T. Cadell; Etc, 1823. Complete Set of 8 Volumes. Well Illustrated with 36 Engraved Plates, one for each Play and a Frontispiece. Frontis of Vol. I illustrated with Engraved Portrait of Shakespeare from the Chandos Portrait. xlviii Preliminary pages of Vol I contain the Preface and Sketch of the Life of Shakespeare by Alexander Chalmers and Shakespeare's Will. Followed by Pope's Preface of 1725, Dr Johnson's Preface, an Historical Account of the English Stage, by Mr Malone and Glossary ( 182 pages ). Main Text, The Tempest; Two Gentlemen & Merry Wives, 286 pages. Volo. II: Twelfth Night, Measure For Measure; Much Ado; Midsummer Night's Dream; Love's Labours Lost. 458 p.pages. Vol. III: Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; All's Well; Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale. 519 p.pages. Vol. IV: Comedy of Errors: Macbeth; King John; ichard II; Henry IV Pt. 1. 489 pages. Vol. V: Henry IV pt 2; Henry V; Henry VI 3 parts. 575 p.pages. Vol. VI: Richard III, Henry VIII, Troilus & Cressida; Timon of Athens; Coriolanus; 621 p.pages. Vol. VII: Julius Caesar; Antony & Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Titus Andronicus; Pericles. 554 p.pages. Vol. VIII: King Lear, Romeo & Juliet; Hamlet, Othello. 541 p. pages. In contemporary Brown Full-Leather Bindings with 4 Raised Bands to spines. Gilt Decoration on Bands and Gilt Lettering in 2nd and 4th Compartments. Blind tooled Grecian style Decorative borders on fronts 7 backs. Endpapers and all-page-edges Marbled. Attractive old Bookplates illustrated with armorial Bearing on endpapers. 8 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear and wear down sides of spines. Spines tanned. Small scrape to leeather at bottom corner of vol. I. Hinges sound and text blocks firm. A few light marginal pencil marks in "Measure for Measure". No other inscriptions. Set weighs 7.4 Kilos so shipping Outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you'd like more pictures, informationor a shipping quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full-Leather. Near Very Good. Book., F. C.and J. Rivington; T. Egerton; J. Cuthell; J. Scatcherd; Longman and Co,; T. Cadell; Etc, 1823, 3, 1976. No binding. William Gerhardi, later 1971, Gerhardie, was an Anglo-Russian playwright and novelist. At the beginning of his career, he was the toast of literary London and won praise from Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and other notable authors. The reaction of the general public never approached the literary response, however. In 1939, he stopped publishing. Thereafter, he lived in relative seclusion, although he told his friends that he was writing a novel entitled "The Present Breath", a tetralogy in one volume (see correspondence below with Neville Braybrooke). This collection includes 16 items dating from 1960 to 1976, specifically, 14 letters, 1 partial manuscript/typescript and 1 photo. 7 Letters (6 ALS and 1 TLS) and 1 partial ms/ts. to Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001), poet, novelist, essayist, biographer), 1960-2: ALS, 31 December 1960, 2 pp.; TLS, 16 June 1961, 1 p.; ALS, 27 July 1961, 1 p.; ALS, 12 October 1961, 2 pp.; ALS, 7 November 1961, 1 p.; ALS, 19 November 1961, 2 pp.; ALS, 11 December 1962, 1 p., notes on verso. Partial ms./ts. of "The Present Breath: A Tetralogy in One Volume", 12 pp. (opening and closing of the book). Total 22 pp. Most of the correspondence pertains to "The Present Breath: A Tetralogy in One Volume".7 Letters (4 ALS and 3 TLS) to Hugh Massingham (1905-1971), journalist and writer), about articles commissioned, his past, his novels and method of working: TLS, 5 March 1967, 1 p.; TLS, 4 April 1967, 1 p.; ALS, 9 April 1967, 1 p.; TLS, 5 May 1967, 1 p.; ALS, 21 July 1967, 8 pp.; ALS, 16 January 1969, 3 pp.; ALS, 2 July 1971, 5 pp. Total 18 pp. Fold marks, slightly crumpled but text clear and complete. (5 March 1967) He suggests a "poignant and dramatic" article on the abdication of the last Tsar or an eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution (50th Anniversary), saying that he was in the British Embassy at Petrograd - which he should have gathered from his novel Futility, adding "there can't be many eye-witnesses of both Revolutions alive today". He explains in a postscript his "reversion" to an "earlier ancestral spelling" of his name, with "e" added as in Shakespeare, Dante, etc. (4 April 1967) He responds enthusiastically and facetiously to a suggestion for articles, saying "I once wrote a commissioned article 'Mr Gerhardie Goes to the Opera' without altering a single word after I'd gone". He suggests meeting at his flat, currently a shambles undergoing spring-cleaning. (9 April 1967) He arranges a meeting. (5 May 1967) He apologizes, describing Massingham as his "new Maecenas" and accepting his offer. He mentions something casting a shadow, that he was advised by Arnold Bennett "to part with the British Serial Rights alone. But suppose we adhere to the wording of R.S. Thackeray in respect of my article 'When the Tsar's Hour Struck' ." He discusses his activity, preparation for an article "on the subject of Father and Son or Father and Parents, for which I intended as a motto-theme for my tetralogy of novels in progress." He asks if he should continue preparing to entertain new ideas (21 July 1967, 8 pp.). He is making notes and other preparations for a "very vivid, unusual, rich article". He's also making notes for a second article as yet not commissioned, considering the "Consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution as it affects the Western World". He is also making notes for a third article, "Father and Son". He expresses his pleasure in the work. He wonders if Massingham has approached an American publisher "to reprint my biographical history - the Romanoffs before I can produce a copy. Publishers, Panther, are stting on his only copy. "My stage play Rasputin is being televised", and he is appearing in a TV interview "recounting my experiences in the Russian Revolution" (16 January 1969). He thinks "Payment without publication is insult without injury", apparently in reproach for some treatment meted out by a Sunday newspaper. "I should have thought that a highly personal article from the most neglected writer of his time, who had met everybody, was what you really wanted?" (2 July 1971). He had suggested that Massingham who expressed "tender feelings" for Futility might like to review it. But he did not tell Gerhardie when he actually did so. He is upset. He tells of a Swedish Ph.D. student in his novel, other interest in Futility and Polyglots (for example. Anthony Powell, who criticized Edith Wharton's liking of Futility).1 B&w photo: Gerhardi 80 years old, Universal Pictorial Press and Agency Limited, November 1975 / March 1976. 4 x 5 inches.Collection on consignment with LDRB., 1976, 0, London : Edward Moxon, 1843-1845. Fine Binding. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. The complete works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. With portrait frontispieces to volumes I and II. In uniform signed bindings by Tout with gilt stamped detailing to the spines. With notes and a biographical memoir of both playwrights by Rev. Alexander Dyce. Dyce was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian. He edited the dramatic works of many well known playwrights such as Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. This complete set is the first of this edition, therefore a first thus. Beaumont and Fletcher wrote their collaborations during the reign of King James I. Their names have been associated together early on in their success and therefore their joint names are also applied to the complete canon of Fletcher. Their first folio contained 35 plays and to their second folio 53 plays were included. Overall their canon contains 55 plays. In uniform calf bindings with gilt stamping to spines. A Tout binding with the binder's stamp to the verso of front endpapers. Externally, very smart with small patches of light rubbing to the joints and to the spines, mainly to the raised bands. Small loss to the head and tail of the spine to volumes I, IV, V and VI. Small loss to the head of spine to volume XI. Small loss to the tail of spine to volumes VII, VIII, IX and X. Small loss to the second spine label of volume VIII. Small patches of rubbing to the rear joint and minor loss to volume VIII. Prior owner's shelf label to the front pastedown of all volumes, 1041. Small closed tear to top of front endpaper to volume iv at the margin. Bookmark ribbon present to all volumes. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with light scattered spots throughout. Very Good Indeed, Edward Moxon, 1843-1845, 3<

1845, ISBN: 379839f9ede12b0b0d22729f976b4b8c

London : Edward Moxon, 1843-1845. Fine Binding. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. The complete works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. With portrait frontispieces to volumes I and … Mehr…

London : Edward Moxon, 1843-1845. Fine Binding. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. The complete works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. With portrait frontispieces to volumes I and II. In uniform signed bindings by Tout with gilt stamped detailing to the spines. With notes and a biographical memoir of both playwrights by Rev. Alexander Dyce. Dyce was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian. He edited the dramatic works of many well known playwrights such as Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. This complete set is the first of this edition, therefore a first thus. Beaumont and Fletcher wrote their collaborations during the reign of King James I. Their names have been associated together early on in their success and therefore their joint names are also applied to the complete canon of Fletcher. Their first folio contained 35 plays and to their second folio 53 plays were included. Overall their canon contains 55 plays. In uniform calf bindings with gilt stamping to spines. A Tout binding with the binder's stamp to the verso of front endpapers. Externally, very smart with small patches of light rubbing to the joints and to the spines, mainly to the raised bands. Small loss to the head and tail of the spine to volumes I, IV, V and VI. Small loss to the head of spine to volume XI. Small loss to the tail of spine to volumes VII, VIII, IX and X. Small loss to the second spine label of volume VIII. Small patches of rubbing to the rear joint and minor loss to volume VIII. Prior owner's shelf label to the front pastedown of all volumes, 1041. Small closed tear to top of front endpaper to volume iv at the margin. Bookmark ribbon present to all volumes. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with light scattered spots throughout. Very Good Indeed, Edward Moxon, 1843-1845, 3<