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Works by SHAKESPEARE

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$6,500.00
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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Works
Author
SHAKESPEARE
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1937. SHAKESPEARE. Works. London: Robt. Rivière & Son, 1937. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, navy and brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $6500.Later edition of the Bard’s histories, comedies, tragedies and poems, limited to 100 sets for distribution in fine bindings by Rivière & Son.""Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature"" (Harold Bloom). Each volume illustrated with frontispiece portrait. With commentaries, glossaries and study questions. Interior fine, very minor wear to binding. A beautiful set.
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Family Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE BOWDLER Thomas

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Family Shakespeare
Author
SHAKESPEARE BOWDLER Thomas
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1825. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Family Shakespeare. London: Longman et al., 1825. Ten volumes. 12mo, early full dark purple calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $3200.Fourth edition of Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare, famously edited to make the plays more appropriate for children, beautifully bound.Thomas Bowdler's own description of this edition, stated on the title, calls it an edition ""in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."" The first edition, published in 1807, is thought to be mostly the work of Thomas' sister, Henrietta Maria Bowdler; it was published under his name in part because in order to expurgate some of the racier passages, one has to first admit to knowing what they mean, which would have been unacceptable for a woman. Overall, about one tenth of the text was deleted by the Bowdlers. Although very successful, Bowdler's edition was notorious even in the 19th century—indeed, the word ""bowdlerize"" comes from it—and has often been used as an exemplar of Victorian prudery. The poet Swinburne vigorously disagreed, however, saying that ""More nauseous and more foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler. No man ever did better service to Shakespeare than the man who made it possible to put him into the hands of intelligent and imaginative children."" A beautifully bound set in fine condition.
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Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman by Oscar Wilde

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman
Author
Oscar Wilde
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good Minus
Description
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. [18], 132, 14, [2] pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition, apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned, per the norm for the paper stock, but clean otherwise. The binding is tight. A few uncut leaves in the advertisement section. FEP with small ornamental bookplate pastedown of "Carroll Atwood Wilson", who was a well-known book collector of his day as well as a lawyer and chief legal counsel to the Guggenheims. The publisher's peach-colored cloth has some blistering on the boards. Along the edges there are long narrow spots in which the color is washed out. The spine has been rebacked with most of the original spine mounted thereon, with a small loss of the gilt lettering transpiring. The resulting spine also has small dark spots, and one is likely not to find it prepossessing.

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