Translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners. In eight volumes, totalling nearly 3,000 pages, each volume with hand coloured title and text decorations, including numerous small coats of arms in the margins (a few black & white), 6 hand-coloured maps, the text occasionally printed in red..... More
Pp.[viii]+46; patterned paper wrappers with flap folds, slightly soiled, edges lightly creased and split; uncut, partly unopened; p. 46 slightly silverfished near fore-edge; Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1936. Ridler 70. *The Shakespeare Head Press was founded in in 1904 by A. H. Bullen (1857-1920), 'for the purpose of printing and..... More
and other material relating to A. H. Bullen, & The Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-upon-Avon. Pp. 90, frontispiece, plus 5 full page illustrations, the title page vignette printed in blue; med. 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine slightly bruised at extremities; t.e.g.; dust wrapper, edges faintly..... More
In eight volumes, totalling over 2,000 pages; printed in red, blue, & black, with numerous hand-coloured text illustrations and decorations, decorative initials; impl. 8vo; qr. green hermitage calf, spines lettered in gilt, Cockerell marbled papered boards with vellum corner tips, the boards a trifle rubbed, with a couple of tiny..... More
