Mary Cowden Clarke

CLARKE, CHARLES AND MARY COWDEN, EDITED, WITH A SCRUPULOUS REVISION OF TEXT. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 4 VOLUMES. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875.
3/4 calf bound volumes, five ridged spine, decorated in gilt; two brown leather panels with title and numbered edition. Red and blue Marbled boards, all edges marbled, end papers marbled. Volume II 1/2 inch chip of title panel with loss of 'K' and "E" on Shakespeare. intact. All editions have mild rubbing and to extremities. Previous owner stamp "Charles A Baeder, Philadelpahia, e.p. and pre-title of volumes 2 & 4, volume I, stamped to e.p. and lower side edge of title page. Each is very solidly bound with clean text. In protective archival polyester wraps. 8 vo, 725, 730, 700, 751 pp. Click for digital

Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke; (1787-1877 and 1809-98, respectively). English editors and critics Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke are best known for their varied studies on William Shakespeare's works. Many of their works emphasized in character study. Four beautiful 3/4 calf bound volumes. Title pages have Illuminated first letter of William Shakespeare. Engraved Frontispiece to: Vol. I, Shakespeare (tissue guard, thin vertical 1 1/2 inch tear); Vol. III Richard The III.; IV., Macbeth. Volume II, has two chips to title panel. Contents: Vol. I.: On the portrait of Shakespeare. Prefixed as a Frontispiece to the First Edition of his works in Folio, 1623. Preface; Chronological table of Shakespeare's Life; Shakespeare's Will; Dedication Prefixed to the First Folio, 1623; Address, Ditto, Ditto; Lines on the portrait of Shakespeare; The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado about Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; Midsummer Night's Dream; Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; Taming of the Shrew; Verbal and sentential glossary indexed. Volume II., All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; The Winter's Tale; King John; King Richard II.; First Part of King Henry IV.; Second Part of King Henry IV.; King Henry V.; First Part of King Henry VI.; Second Part of King Henry VI. Volume III.; Third Part of King Henry VI.; Life and Death of King Richard III.; King Henry VIII.; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar. Volume IV., (Contents page dog eared, front inside hinge starting.); Macbeth; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; King Lear; Othello, The Moor of Venice; Anthony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Perciles, Prince of Tyre. Poems: Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and Turtle. Three-Quarter Leather Very Good

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Strang, Mrs Herbert (ed) (pseud): The Green Book for Girls, London Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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Undated but according to the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library, it is 1914. This is one volume of "The Red Book Series", nine of which (for girls and younger children) were edited by Mrs Strang, while the other nine (for boys primarily) were edited by Mr (Herbert) Strang. A collection of stories written for girls by authors including Charles Dickens ("The Magic Fish-Bone"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("The Emperor's Bird's Nest"), Mary Ambree, J. Russell Ford, Angela Brazil, Alice Massie, Amy B. Barnard, Emily Underdown, Esmee Rhoades, Mary Cowden Clarke, Frank Buckland, Mrs Herbert Strang, L. C. Hobart, Beatrice Tilly, Bessie Marchant, M. E. F. Irwin, and Dorita M. Fairlie Bruce. A variety of artists contributed including E S Farmer, C E Brock, and C Clark (names approx as their signatures are difficult to read). <BR> Mrs Herbert Strang was the pseudonym used by Mr Herbert Strang for his girls' stories. HOWEVER, Mr Herbert Strang was also a pen-name. According to <B><I> The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, </b></i> "George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and James L'Estrange (1867-1947), two staff members of Oxford University Press" were the authors of the Herbert and Mrs Herbert Strang books. <Br> Covers (Pictorial paper depicting a "lady" cowering as two workmen look on front and green cloth to spine with titles and picture of young woman reading) are worn, rubbed, soiled chipped with several open tears, though none are detrimental to main picture. FEP is missing but remainder of textblock appears present, though several pages are detached, with slight foxing and soiling throughout. First Edition No Jacket Decorative Paper 7.5 x 10"; First Edition

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Altick, Richard D.. THE COWDEN CLARKES. London: Oxford University Press, 1948
This is the first biographical study of Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, indefatigable Victorian worshippers of great writers, who did much in their ardent though uncritical way to popularize Shakespeare in Britain and America. Charles is best remembered as the friend of Keats, whose poetry owed more than a little to this son of his schoolmaster. With a brief bibliography of the writings of Charles & Mary Cowden Clarke.. First edition. 8vo. xii, 268 pages. Salmon gilt-stamped cloth (hardcover binding).

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Clarke, Charles & Mary Cowden: Recollections of Writers With Letters of Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, and Charles Dickens; 1878 New York Charles Scribner

VG Ex-lib, cloth, backstrip gone. Frayed and chipped at edges. Facsimile letter tipped in as issued. Uncommon.

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