Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/108
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shakespeare (William)—continued. 349 Plays. With the Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators, to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With the series of about 150 portraits and plates published by Harding, inserted, Another Copy on Large Paper. 15 vols., Svo, fame copy in full morocco extra, g.eé. London, 17093. £45 FIRST TRANSLATION INTO DUTCH. 350 [Works.] William Shakespeare’s Tooneelspelen: Met de Bronwellen, en Aantekeningen van verscheide Beroemde Schryveren. Naar het Engel- sche en het Hoogduitsche vertaald, en met nieuw geinventeerde Kunst- plaaten. versfierd. Portrait and plates by A. Hulk. 5 vols., thick post 8vo, original calf. Amsterdam, 1778-1782. £4 4s The First Edition of the first translation into Dutch. It was never completed; only five volumes were issued, and these contain :—Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Hamlet; Henry IV; King John; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor; Much Ado about Nothing; Othello; Richard III; Taming of the Shrew; Tempest; and Two Gentlemen of Verona. 351 [Dramatic Works.] Shakespeare’s Dramatische Werke, ubersetzt von August Welhelm Schlegel. Q vols., small 8vo, calf (rebacked). Berlin, 1797-1810. £3 3s 352 SHAKESPEAREANA,. Dudley (Sir H. B. and Lady). Modern Char- acters for 1778. By Shakespear. Third Edition. Sm. 8vo, wrapgers. London, Printed by D. Brown, 1778. 12s 6d Public characters of the period [under initials] described haphazard by passage found in Shakespeare. 353 ———— Edwards (Thomas). The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; The Trial of the Letter Y, alias Y, and Sonnets. 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for C. Bathurst, 1765. £1 5s Being a Supplement to Warburton’s Shakespeare. This edition is the first to contain Roderick’s ‘‘ Remarks on Shakespeare.’’ Jerningham (Edward). The Shakspeare Gallery, a Poem. FIRST EDITION. 4to, boards. London, Printed for J. Robson, 1791. £1 5s In praise of John Boydell, Lord, Mayor of London’s, collection of Shakespearian pictures. 354
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