Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1941
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE RARE SUPPLEMENT TO ROWE’S SHAKESPEARE. 785 796 797 SHAKESPEAR, VOLUME the SEVENTH, containing, VENUs & ADONIS, TARQUIN & Lucrece, and his MISCELLANY POEMS ; with Critical Remarks on his Plays, &c., to which is Prefix’d an Essay on the ART, RISE and PRoGREss of the STAGE in GREECE, ROME, and ENGLAND [by CHARLES GILDON, edited by S.N. iL Baia frontispiece, 8vo., contemp. calf Goint broken), Printed for E. Curll Se i7to ($56) £14/-/- Small wormhole in frontispiece, title and first few leaves, but a fine clean copy. Sig- nature Gg (8 leaves) which should be at the end of the volume is misbound after title- page to ** Tarquin & Lucrece.” Issued as a supplementary volume to Rowe’s first edition (1709) of the works of Shake- speare, which was published by Jacob Tonson. Stated in “‘ Notes and Queries 2nd Series, vol. XII, p 349 ” to be a piratical production of Edmund Curll. Works, with a Glossary, carefully printed from the Oxford Edition in Quarto, 1744 [Edited by THoMaAs HANMER, with ALEXANDER POPE’S PREFACE and SOME ACCOUNT of the LIFE, etc., of SHAKESPEARE, written by N. Rowe], portrait and 36 plates, 9 vols, 12mo., contemp. boards, vellum backs, edges entirely uncut, 1747 ($14) £3/10/- CORIOLANUS ; or THE ROMAN MatTRON, a Tragedy, altered from Shakespeare by Mr. T. SHERIDAN, taken from the Manager’s Book at the THEATRE ROYAL in Drury LANE, frontispiece showing Mr. Kemble as Coriolanus, 48 pages, sm. 8vo., unbound, R. Butters [ca. 1784] ($1.50) 7/6 HAMLET, and As You LIKE IT, A Specimen of a NEW EDITION of SHAKESPEARE [edited by T. CaLDEcoTT], roy. 8vo., boards (new back strip), uncut, 1819 ($3) 15/- Issue restricted to 100 copies and the only volume of the intended ‘‘ New Edition ” to be published. Jaggard. Shakespeare Bibliography, page 310. THE First Part of Kine Henry IV.,a Tragedy, ... taken from the Manager’s Book, at the THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN, frontispiece showing Mr. Pope as Hotspur, 42 pages, sm. 8vo., unbound, R. Butters [ca. 1784] ($1.50) 7/6 Kinc Henry V., a Tragedy, in Five Acts, ... taken from the Manager’s Book, at the THEATRE ROYAL, DrRuRY-LANE, frontispiece showing Mr. Kemble as “Henry Vs 46 pages, sm. 8vo., unbound, zdid. [ca. 1784] ($1.50) 7/6 Not recorded by Jaggard. Mucu Apo about NOTHING, a Comedy, . . . taken from the Manager’s Book, at the THEATRE RoyaL, Drury-LANE, frontispiece showing Miss Farren as Beatrice, 44 pages, sm. 8vo., unbound, zbid. [ca. 1784] ($1.50) 7/6 THE Two GENTLEMEN of VERONA, a Comedy, in Five Acts, ... taken from the Manager’s Book, at the THEATRE RoyaL, DRuRY-LANE, frontispiece showing Mr. Quick as Launce, 52 pages, sm. 8vo., unbound, zbid. [ca. 1784] ($1.50) 7/6 Not recorded by Jaggard. SHAKESPEARIANA.—CREIZENACH (WILHELM) THE ENGLISH DRAMA in the AGE of SHAKESPEARE, translated from ‘‘ Geschichte des neueren Dramas” [by Muss CECILE HUuGON ; revised, with the Author’s additions, by ALFRED SCHUSTER], with 3 illustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1916 ($2) 10/- : GERVINUS (DR. G. G.) SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARIES, translated by F. E. Bun- NETT, FIFTH EDITION, 8vo., cloth, 1892 ($1.60) 8/- : Masie (HAMILTON WRIGHT) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, POET, DRAMATIST and Man, with 100 illustrations, including 9 full-page piates in photogravure, 8vo., cloth, New York, 1900 ($4) £1/-/- : MorGANN (Mavric—) AN Essay on the DRAMATIC CHARACTER of SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, NEW EDITION, 8vo., half morocco, uncut, t.e.g., 1825 ($4.20) £1/1/- : PHIN (JOHN) THE SHAKESPEARE CYCLOPAEDIA and NEW GLOSSARY... with an Introduction by EDWARD DOWDEN, cr. 8vo., cloth, 1902 ($1.20) 6/- SHELLEY (Percy ByssHE).—ELLIs (F. S.) A LEexIcAL CONCORDANCE to the POETICAL Works of PERCY BySSHE SHELLEY: an attempt to classify every word found therein ac- cording to its signification, 4to., strongly bound in half roan, 1892 ($7.60) £1/18/-
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