A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by Herbert Farjeon (English).</li><li>The Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings.</li><li>London: Nonesuch Press, 1929-33.</li><li>Large octavo.</li><li>One of 1,600 sets published, this being number 275.</li><li>Original tan morocco, raised bands, gilt titles to compartments, gilt rules to boards and turn-ins, top edges gilt.</li><li>Bookends are shown for display only and are not included.</li></ul>

The Works of William Shakespeare

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of the Complete Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Shakespeare&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Society of Shakespeare Editors,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco by Maurin, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels. </li></ul>

Complete Works

Finely bound deluxe copy of Rackham's illustrated Midsummer-Night's Dream.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>London and New York:&nbsp;William Heinemann, and Doubleday, Page &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1908.</li><li>134 text pages.</li><li>Large octavo.</li><li>Includes 40 mounted color plates and 30 other decorations.</li><li>Deluxe edition of 1,000 copies, this is number 747.</li><li>Signed by Rackham on the limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in full red morocco gilt by Lewis &amp; Harris Bookbinders Ltd., Bath, England, with pictorial colored inlay on the upper cover, silk endpapers, gilt edges.</li><li>Housed in cloth clamshell case.</li></ul> "Rackham cast his spell over the play," notes Derek Hudson. "His drawings superseded the work of all his predecessors from Gilbert to Abbey and for fifty years have enriched the imagination...Here he excelled especially in landscape, and in reconciling dream and reality, giving himself to the luxury of rich detail with a rare generosity." A fine copy of an admirable Rackham classic, in a bespoke binding designed and executed by Chris Lewis, among Bayntun-Riviere's most talented finishers in the mid-20th century before starting his own bindery with Derek Harris.

A Midsummer-Night's Dream

Finely bound sixth edition copy of Othello.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Othello, The Moor of Venice. A Tragedy.</li><li>London: for Richard Bentley, 1695.</li><li>(ii)76 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco, vertical lettered spine, covers ruled in gilt and gilt dentelles.</li></ul>

Othello

A beautifully illustrated copy of Shakespeare's comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Hodder &amp; Stoughton Publishers,&nbsp;[1908].&nbsp;</li><li>39 color plates by W. Heath Robinson tipped onto gray paper.</li><li>144 pp. 4to.</li><li>One of 350 copies signed by the artist.</li><li>Original full vellum, gilt lettering, and pictorial illustration to upper cover, t.e.g., gray endpapers.</li><li>In open-faced cloth slipcase.</li></ul> A beautiful copy of this remarkable illustrated edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Though later in his career Robinson would become known for humorous illustrations and cartoons of whimsical machines, he began by illustrating collector's editions of fairy tales and other classic stories including this richly illustrated edition of "Twelfth Night." From the private collection of Robin Williams, who played buffonish antagonist Malvolio in a college production in 1971.

Twelfth Night

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of limited edition Letterpress <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets&amp;query=Shakespeare&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 39 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;The Folio Society,&nbsp;1982-2008.&nbsp;</li><li>Folios.</li><li>Each folio is three quarter bound in leather, with gilt lettering to spine, marbled paper boards, gilt top, deckled text-block, silk ribbon bookmark, and accompanied by a companion Octavo.</li><li>The Folio Tragedies (Vols. 1-12) are bound in red leather with red cloth-bound companion Octavos and red clamshell cases.</li><li>The Folio Comedies (Vols. 13-28) are bound in green leather with green cloth-bound companion Octavos and green clamshell cases.</li><li>The Folio Histories (Vols. 29-38) are bound in blue leather with blue cloth-bound companion Octavos and blue clamshell cases.</li><li>The Folio Sonnets &amp; Poetry (Vol. 39) is bound in teal leather with teal cloth-bound companion Octavo and teal clamshell case.</li><li>All volumes have a matching limitation number (#300).</li></ul> CONTENTS: Volume 1.&nbsp;Anthony and Cleopatra&nbsp;(Folio 126 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo xi, 388 pages)Volume 2.&nbsp;Coriolanus&nbsp;(Folio 127 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 388 pages)Volume 3.&nbsp;Cymbeline&nbsp;(Folio 122 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 287 pages)Volume 4.&nbsp;Hamlet&nbsp;(Folio 129 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 406 pages) Volume 5.&nbsp;Julius Caesar&nbsp;(Folio 98 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 253 pages)Volume 6.&nbsp;King Lear&nbsp;(Folio 115 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo x, 321 pages)Volume 7.&nbsp;Macbeth&nbsp;(Folio 92 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo xii, 249 pages)Volume 8.&nbsp;Othello&nbsp;(Folio #300/3750; companion Octavo x, 491 pages)Volume 9.&nbsp;Romeo and Juliet&nbsp;(Folio 113 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 450 pages)Volume 10.&nbsp;Timon of Athens&nbsp;(Folio 87 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 370 pages)Volume 11.&nbsp;Titus Andronicus&nbsp;(Folio, 97 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 226 pages)Volume 12.&nbsp;Troilus and Cressida&nbsp;(Folio 120 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo vii, 205 pages)Volume 13.&nbsp;All's Well That Ends Well&nbsp;(Folio 103 pages, #300/1000 copies, closed tear to back free endpaper; companion Octavo ix, 245 pages)Volume 14.&nbsp;As You Like It&nbsp;(Folio 94 pages, #300/3750 copies; x, 245 pages)Volume 15.&nbsp;Comedy of Errors&nbsp;(Folio 75 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo viii, 232 pages)Volume 16.&nbsp;Love's Labour's Lost&nbsp;(Folio 101 pages, #300/1,000 copies; companion Octavo viii, 263 pages)Volume 17.&nbsp;Measure for Measure&nbsp;(Folio 100 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 255 pages)Volume 18.&nbsp;The Merchant of Venice&nbsp;(Folio 97 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo xi, 241 pages)Volume 19.&nbsp;Merry Wives of Windsor&nbsp;(Folio 92 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 242 pages)Volume 20.&nbsp;A Midsummer Night's Dream&nbsp;(Folio 82 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 275 pages)Volume 21.&nbsp;Much Ado About Nothing&nbsp;(Folio 93 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 214 pages)Volume 22.&nbsp;Pericles&nbsp;(Folio 90 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 306 pages)Volume 23.&nbsp;The Taming of the Shrew&nbsp;(Folio 101 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo 248 pages)Volume 24.&nbsp;The Tempest&nbsp;(Folio 80 pages; #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo x, 248 pages)Volume 25.&nbsp;Twelfth Night&nbsp;(Folio 87 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo viii, 247 pages)Volume 26.&nbsp;Two Gentlemen of Verona&nbsp;(Folio 88 pages #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 190 pages)Volume 27.&nbsp;The Two Noble Kinsmen&nbsp;(Folio 112 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 233 pages; mild wear to cardboard insert separating Folio and Octavo)Volume 28.&nbsp;The Winter's Tale&nbsp;(Folio 110 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo viii, 295 pages; mild bumping to clamshell case)Volume 29.&nbsp;Henry IV Part 1&nbsp;(Folio 101 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 315 pages)Volume 30.&nbsp;Henry IV Part 2&nbsp;(Folio 111 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 287 pages)Volume 31.&nbsp;Henry V&nbsp;(Folio 109 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 330 pages)Volume 32.&nbsp;Henry VI Part 1&nbsp;(Folio 109 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 256 pages) Volume 33.&nbsp;Henry VI Part 2&nbsp;(Folio 123 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo x, 319 pages)Volume 34.&nbsp;Henry VI Part 3&nbsp;(Folio 121 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo x, 392 pages)Volume 35.&nbsp;King Henry VIII&nbsp;(Folio 115 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 230 pages)Volume 36.&nbsp;King John&nbsp;(Folio 100 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 303 pages)Volume 37.&nbsp;Richard II&nbsp;(Folio 106 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo x, 297 pages)Volume 38.&nbsp;Richard III&nbsp;(Folio, 133 pages; #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 414 pages)Volume 39.&nbsp;Sonnets and Poems&nbsp;(Folio 222 pages, #300/1980 copies; companion Octavo ix, 750 pages).

Letterpress Shakespeare

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 20 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by William J. Rolfe.&nbsp;</li><li>New York: Harper &amp; Brothers,&nbsp;1884.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece with Shakespeare's printed signature, illustrated with engravings throughout.</li><li>Marbled endpapers, three-quarters red Morocco leather, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands.</li></ul>

The Friendly Edition: Shakespeare's Works

First American edition of the Boydell collection of the Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by John Boydell (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Shearjashub Spooner,&nbsp;1852.&nbsp;</li><li>205 pages; 200 pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>51 illustrated plates; 49 illustrated plates.</li><li>Three-quarter bound in red morocco and red buckram with gilt ruling and lettering to spine and gilt ruling to boards.</li></ul> Boydell was a British publisher and engraver who decided to undertake the massive project of creating an illustrated folio edition of Shakespeare’s works that took nearly twenty years to complete, and the first edition was published in 1805. It incorporates engravings based on the works of dozens of prominent artists, including George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffman.

Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of The Temple <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>, housed in a custom oak bookcase with bronze panels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 40 volumes housed in a custom bookcase.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by Israel Gollancz.</li><li>London: Dent, 1898-1910.</li><li>16mo.</li><li>Portrait frontispiece to The Tempest and illustrated frontispieces to remaining 39 volumes, each with tissue-guard printed with textural quotes.</li><li>Shakespeare’s coat of arms in yellow and black to each upper paste-down, title-pages printed in red and black.</li><li>Publisher’s burgundy fine-grained morocco gilt, top edge gilt.</li><li>Housed in the original Art Nouveau oak table-top bookcase with three fine, figural bronze panels interspersed with four shelves with hinged dust-guards at the top of each.</li></ul> First published in 1895, The Temple Shakespeare is sought after for its elegant design and convenient format; this set is unusual in being in the original Art Nouveau table-top bookcase in laid with three figural bronze plaques, each bearing a quote from one of Shakespeare’s plays; ‘Born to Speak all Mirth’ (Much Ado About Nothing); ‘The Time’s News Be Known’ (The Winter’s Tale); ‘Misery’s Love, Oh Come to Me’ (King John).

The Temple Shakespeare | Housed in Custom Bookcase

A finely bound edition of Boaden's Shakespeare inquiry.<ul><li>James Boaden (English).</li><li>An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare.</li><li>London: Printed for Robert Triphook [B. M'Millan, Printer, Bow-street, Covent-Garden], 1824.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>206 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco with five Cosway-style watercolor miniatures under glass on the upper cover, by Riviere &amp; Son, in open-faced red cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints...of Shakespeare

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Lot Comprises: R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston & George D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1965, fol., publisher's red boards, dust jacket Henri Bordier & Emile Mabille, Prince of Forgers [translation of Une fabrique de faux autographes, ou, Récit de l'affaire Vrain Lucas (Paris 1870) by Joseph Rosenblum], New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1998, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust jacket Arthur Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery, 400 BC-AD 2000, London, Quaritch, 2014, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket Earle Havens, ed., Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, 2015, fol., publisher's printed colored paper wrappers Alfred Hiatt, The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth Century England, London, British Library, 2004, 4to., publisher's cloth, dust jacket John Blacker, d. 1896 Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a remarkable collection of books in magnificent modern bindings, formed by an amateur (recently deceased), London, 11 November 1897 Otto Kurz, Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors & Students, London, Faber & Faber, 1948, 4to., publisher's olive‐green cloth, dust jacket Robin Myers & Michael Harris, ed., Fakes and frauds : varieties of deception in print & manuscript, Winchester & Detroit, St. Paul's Bibliographies / Omnigraphics, 1989, 8vo., publisher's printed boards Patricia Pierce, The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William‐Henry Ireland, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2004, 8vo., publisher's black cloth boards, dust jacket Christopher S. Wood, Forgery, replica, fiction : temporalities of German Renaissance art, Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket François de Callataÿ & Claude Sorgeloos, ed., Renier Chalon alias Fortsas: Un érudit malicieux au mitan du XIXe siècle (Monographies du Musée royal de Mariemont, 16), Musée royal de Mariemont, 2008, fol., publisher's printed paper wrappers William Voelkle & Roger S. Wieck, The Spanish Forger, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, fol., publisher's paper wrappers, ex‐libris and pressure stamp of Saint John's University Library The Spanish Forger: A Master of Deception, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin, 10 December 1987 - 28 February 1988 Sold as a group, not subject to return

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rare books - fakes, forgeries

Lot Comprises: Valerie Hotchkiss & Fred C. Robinson, English in Print: from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton, (catalogue of an exhibition of materials from the collections of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, and the Elizabethan Club, Yale University, held at The Grolier Club, May 14‐July 26, 2008), Urbana & Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2008, fol., publisher's printed wrappers Edward Gordon Craig, Books and Theatres, London, J.M. Dent, 1925, 4to., half cloth over grey boards, ex Nancie Napier White, 1925 William A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475‐1700, (New York, 1940), reprint New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press; Los Angeles, CA, Heritage Book Shop, Inc., 1997, 3 vols., fol., publisher's brown cloth gilt Sold as a group, not subject to return

View 1 of Lot 327: Rare books - Literature, English

rare books - literature, english

Lot Comprises: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library Jane Greenfield, Notable Bindings, New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2002, 8vo., printed beige wrappers New York, Morgan Library & Museum Howard M. Nixon, Sixteenth‐Century Gold‐tooled Bookbindings in The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1971, fol., publisher's brown cloth New York, Morgan Library & Museum Paul Needham, Bookbinding before 1600 : a guide and handlist to the exhibition, Twelve centuries of bookbindings, the Pierpont Morgan Library, 21 February-8 April 1979, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrapper New York, Morgan Library & Museum Betty C. Tyson, A Guide to an Exhibition of Armorial and Related Bindings, 1500‐1800, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935, 8vo., later cloth, original wrappers bound in, bookplate of The Grolier Club inscribed "Gift of The Pierpont Morgan Library" with release stamp New York, Hispanic Society of America Clara Louisa Penney, An Album of Selected Bookbindings, New York, Hispanic Society of America, 1967, small fol., publisher's red cloth gilt, dust jacket Princeton, University Fine Bindings, Gothic to Modern: European Handbound Books in the Princeton University Library together with the William H. Scheide Library and The Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton, University Library, 1978, 8vo., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrappers Syracuse, University Jeff Weber, Fore‐edge Paintings at Syracuse University (off‐print from Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, vol. 27, 1993), 4to., printed wrappers, author's presentation inscription to T. Kimball Brooker Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library Frederick A. Bearman, Nati H. Krivatsy & J. Franklin Mowery, Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library [introduction by Anthony Hobson], Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992, fol., publisher's brown decorated cloth gilt, dust jacket Williamstown, Williams College, Chapin Library E. Melanie Gifford, Bookbindings in the Chapin Library on exhibition March 1-31, 1976, Williamstown, Williams College, 1976, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrappers Sold as a group, not subject to return.

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