Sales catalogue 434: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/19
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 434: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FIRST QUARTO EDITION: 10 WORKS. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, by Mr. Pope. (With some Account of the Life, etc., of Mr. William Shakespear, written by Mr. Rowe.) Illustrated with two portraits. 6 vols., 4to, orzginal calf. London, Jacob Tonson, 1723-25. £5 5s *** The First Edition in Quarto, and the earliest edited by Alexander Pope. it embraces Pope’s preface, the lfe by Rowe, an index of characters, sentiments, speeches, and descriptions, and a list of subscribers, in addition to the matter set forth on title. Of the two portraits engraved by G. Vertue, one is said by Boaden to represent King James in a large Ailes and the other, supposed to be the Stratford bust, is unlike it, inasmuch as it gives the poet a profusion of hair. Volume one is dated 1725; the other five are dated 1723. 11 WORKS. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected; with Notes, Explanatory and Critical. Engraved portrait of Shakespeare. FIRST EDITION as edited by Theobald. | 7 vols., post 8vo, contemporary calf. London, 1733. £5 5s **«* Theobald is stated to have aroused enmity by his outspoken criticism of Pope's edition, earning thereby for himself the principal part in Pope’s ‘‘ Dunciad ” 12 WORKS. Portrait of Shakespeare. LARGE PAPER COPY OF THEOBALD’S FIRST EDITION. 7 vols., royal 8vo, contemporary calf gilts London, 1733. £1010s *** Only 75 copies were done on large paper. 12a WORKS, carefully revised and corrected [by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker in. the House off Commons] by the former editions, and adorned with sculptures designed and executed by the best hands. G volss, ato, eld calf. Oxford, Printed at the Theatre, 1743-6. £6 6s The First Edition edited by Hanmer, issued under the auspices of the University delegates. It is the First Edition to contain the Westminster and _ Stratford monuments. 13 THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, in cight volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators; to atch are added Notes by Sam. Johnson. Portrait of Shakespeare. 8 vols., 8vo, orzginal calf. London, Printed for [. and R. Tonson, etc., 1765. £3 3s *** The first edition edited by the famous lexicographer, Dr. Samuel Johnson; the first variorum edition, and the foundation of hundreds of subsequent issues.
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