Shakespeare Shakespeare's Works

Shakespeare, William. DRAMATIC WORKS AND POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, with Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play, By Samuel Weller Singer, F.S.A. and A LIFE OF THE POET By Charles Symmons, D.D. in Two Volumes. (New York: George Dearborn, 1836)

2 volumes. First of the edition and a very early American issue. Engraved frontispiece of the Bard and many black and white engravings throughout. Tall 8vo, three quarter contemporary black straight-grain morocco over green pebbled cloth boards, the spine with raised bands gilt lined and decorated, lettered in gilt in two compartments, marbled endpapers. 522; 596pp. A very handsome and attractive early American issuance of Shakespeare's works, with only light aging. A very well preserved set.

[KW: english lit drama theatre]

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Shakespeare (Pocket Poets Ser. ) Compiled and Illsutrated by Patricia MacHin. Exeter: Webb And Bower Publishers, 1985.
46 coloured illustrations for Shakespeare's poetry collection. ; 24mo. 0863500498.

First Edition, Hard Cover, Illustrated by MacHin, Patricia (Illustrator). Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

[KW: POETRY POETIC WORKS AUTHOR Shakespeare Poetry,]

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William Shakespeare, with Glossarial Notes & a Life By Rev. Alexander Dyce, Illustrated , Inner Hinges Starting Cracked, Blank Endpapers Former OWNER NAME Pencil & FoXing, Blank Back FLYLEAF FORMER OWNER STAMP: Shakespeare's Works, Dramatic and Poetic with Glossarial Notes & a Life By Rev. Alexander Dyce, Complete in One Volume, UNABRIDGED with Memoir, Glassford Edition, Wm. L. Allison NY

Hardback NODustJacket, 1890s ? , NO DATE, Brown Thick Embossed Cloth with Gold Gilt Titles & Decoration on Spine, VG-/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, Cover has Rub, wear , Scuff & Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Interior relatively Nice , AGING, FoXing stains & few tears pages edges, FoXing Stains outer Edges Pages, 988 pgs, Small stain Back cover No Jacket Hard Cover

[KW: William Shakespeare Literature]

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O'Connor, John: ARIEL AND MIRANDA, SEVEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY...INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE'S "THE TEMPEST." Blewbury, Oxfordshire Rocket Press n.d.(1992)
Printed in an edition limited to 65 numbered sets, of which this is one of 20 which include an original watercolor. John S. O'Connor (1913-) was a student of Eric Ravilious, John Nash and others at the Royal Academy of Art in the mid-30's. His own works began to appear in the late 30's, some of them in the publications of the Golden Cockerell Press. Since that time, Mr. O'Connor has produced paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and engravings in various media. Peppin and Micklethwait (Dictionary of British Book Illustrators, 1983, p.218) describe his wood engravings as "strikingly decorative in the tradition of Eric Ravilious, with tonal and textural contrast achieved through a wide variety of tooling." Hamilton (Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in England c1890-1990, 1994, p.150) characterizes O'Connor's work (his landscapes) as "strong edges, deep shadows and dramatic contrasts of light and dark" which give "a sense of rhythm and pattern to the image." Garrett (History of British Wood Engraving, 1978, p.222) regards O'Connor's engraving style as in the "Ravilious manner," which he has just described (p.221) as "illustrative, decorative and dominated by intricate pattern and texture." In his introduction to this set, Mr O'Connor discusses his interest in Shakespeare's The Tempest and provides the rationale for these engravings: "I like to consider the years previous to the brief action of the play. The "sprite" close to his master and to Miranda the child: and I suggest the boy and girl would have enjoyed each other's company in the manner of brother and sister. He would be a little wild; she enclosed in that strangely mature innocence that is written into Miranda. Shy at first, the two children would play in streams, collect herbs..." etc. There are nine illustrations: the seven signed and numbered (with regard to copy) engravings, a similarly signed watercolor on the same theme but not precisely copying any of the engravings, and a small (3x4 in.) unsigned engraving affixed to the front of the clamshell case. Figures (Ariel and Miranda, or Ariel alone) are variously posed, each partially outlined by a pure white area roughly approximating their forms. Two prints are in black, yellow, and white; the rest are black-and-white. Sizes (other than the case illustration) are roughly 4x6 or 6x8 inches. Cutouts in fronts of folders frame the pictures when the folders are closed. Accompanied by a folded folio sheet with title and Mr. O'Connor's introduction and signed by the artist (verso of the title page), with the annotation "92," presumably the date of publication. The interior lining of the clamshell case is printed with a repeated motif taken from one of the engravings. Printed at the Rocket Press.

folio, clamshell case with paper labels, folded sheet, sheets mounted in stiff board folders. (4) pages, 8 folders.

[KW: PRIVATE PRESS & FINE PRINTING, TWENTIETH CENTURY UNITED KINGDOM ROCKET PRESS BOOK ILLUSTRATION, TWENTIETH CENTURY]

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