Chalmers alexander ed (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Foxing to the pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Full-leather cover. 103 x 157 x 20mm. (viii) + 275pp. With frontispiece portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Book in three parts, with front board and a couple of leaves completely detached and another complete split halfway through volume; leather worn and very mottled (possibly water damaged at some point), with lettering completely disappeared; internal text very largely clean and bright, with stitching quite tight within each portion. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Full-leather cover. 103 x 157 x 20mm. (viii) + 250pp. Rear board detached, front board attached by a single thread; leather worn and mottled, with lettering no longer visible; internal contents clean and bright, with stitching still sound. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.…

Zustand: Poor. Volume 11. This book has a marbled cover. Torn backstrip and dog-eared corners. Foxing on pages. Weak spine. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Volumes I to XXI complete. The facsimile is reproduced from a copy held at the University of Munster; the reprint is slightly reduced in size. Hard covers in very good condition, no jackets intended. Red cloth boards with gilt title and publisher emblem to front, gilt detail to black spine band. Light shelf and handling wear overall, including fading to pageblock heads, with several volumes being affected by small blemishes, minor foxing and light damp marks to PB edges. Content is unaffected. A few volumes have minor flaws to boards or board spines, but overall, this set is in fine condition. Within, pages are tightly bound and content unmarked. Further details or photographs are available upon request. CN. Used.…

Binding sound, text unmarked. Zustand: Near Fine. Original full tan calf, double gilt fillets and dotted blind roll framing boards. Raised bands, ornate gilt decor, one green gilt and one red gilt label per spine. 8vos (14.5 x 22.3cm). Gilt decor to board edges; blind decor to turn-ins. A very little scuffing rear board of vols I & VII; small abrasions to front board of vol. VII. Band of mild fading and spotting to rear board of vol. VIII, near spine. Board corners very mildly worn. Small scuff to fore-edge of rear board of vol. VIII. All edges marbled. Hinges sound. Marbled endpapers uncracked at gutters. A very little mild foxing, mostly to prelims. Frontis port. of Shakespeare to vol. I. Vol. I contains a 40pp. ''Life of Shakspeare'', plus the prefaces to Shakespeare by Johnson and Pope, Chalmers' ''Historical Account of the English Stage'', Shakespeare's will, and a glossary. Further contents: Vol. 1: The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor / Vol. 2: Twelfth Night; Measure for Measure; Much Ado About Nothing; Midsummer-Night's Dream; Love's Labour's Lost / Vol. 3: Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well; Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale / Vol. 4: Comedy of Errors; Macbeth; King John; King Richard II; King Henry IV Part I / Vol. 5: King Henry IV Part II; King Henry V; King Henry VI Part I; King Henry VI Part II; King Henry VI Part III / Vol. 6. King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Timon of Athens; Coriolanus / Vol. 7: Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Titus Andronicus; Pericles / Vol. 8: King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello. This edition, first published in 1805, draws on the work of the great late-18th-century Shakespearians Steevens and Malone, and was edited by Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834), biographer and literary editor, known for his ''extensive biographical and bibliographical research'' (ODNB). A handsome set. Jaggard p. 526. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Size: c. 300pp. per vol.…

First Edition. Good to very good copies all in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now with minor surface-wear and some minor abrasions. Panel edges and corners show some wear. Spines gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, the former slightly rubbed along with joints and endbands, and the latter partly or entirely lacking on a few volumes. Some joints cracked, with hinges weak and board becoming loose. Vol. 19 bottom edge shows a stain, with text unaffected. Marble endpapers; preliminary and final leaves foxed. Core text blocks remain uniformly strong, showing only the expected faint foxing and offsetting of age. A well-preserved set overall. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; complete in 21 volumes ; 25 cm. Notes; Each volume has a half-title. Text printed in double columns. Includes index. Contents; Vol. 1, Chaucer -- Vol. 2, Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile -- Vol. 3, Spenser, Daniel -- Vol. 4, Drayton, Warner -- Vol. 5, Shakspeare, Davies, Donne, Hall, Stirling, Jonson, Corbet, Carew, Drummond -- Vol. 6, J. Beaumont, G. and P. Fletcher, F. Beaumont, Browne, Davenant, Habington, Suckling, Cartwright, Crashaw, Sherburne, Brome, C. Cotton -- Vol. 7, Cowley, Denham, Milton -- Vol. 8, Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden -- Vol. 9, Dryden, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison -- Vol. 10, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay -- Vol. 11, Lansdowne, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somerville, Savage, Swift -- Vol. 12, Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson -- Vol. 13, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young -- Vol. 14, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse -- Vol. 15, W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, Hamilton -- Vol. 16, Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson -- Vol. 17, Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns -- Vol. 18, Cotton, Logan, T. Warton, J. Warton, Blacklock, Cambridge, Mason, Jones, Beattie, Cowper -- Vol. 19, Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal, Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry, Francis's Horace -- Vol. 20, Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonius, Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod -- Vol. 21, Hoole's Ariosto and Tasso, Mickle's Lusiad. Subjects; English poetry. Collections. Poets, English. 1 Kg. …

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A neatly bound complete eight volume set of plays by William Shakespeare, in full brown morocco. A handsomely bound set of plays by William Shakespeare.William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His playshave been translatedinto every majorliving languageand are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.Accurately printed from the text corrects copies left by the late George Steevens and Edmond Malone.With Mr. Malone's various readings, a selection of explanatory and historical notes from the most eminent commentators, a history of the stage, and a life of Shakespeare; by Alexander Chalmers.A new edition, in eight volumes.In full brown morocco binding, with marbled fore edges and endpapers.Volume I is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.This set includes:Vol I- The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor.Vol II- Twelfth Night; Measure for Measure; Much Ado About Nothing; Midsummer-Night's Dream; Love's Labour's Lost.Vol III- Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well; Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale.Vol IV- Comedy of Errors; Macbeth; King John; King Richard II; King Henry IV- Part I.Vol V- King Henry IV- Part II; King Henry V; King Henry VI- Part I; King Henry VI- Part II; King Henry VI- Part III.Vol VI- King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Timon of Athens; Coriolanus.Vol VII- Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Titus Adronicus; Pericles.Vol VIII- King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello. In full brown morocco. Externally, very smart. Some marks to boards, with occasional rubbing. Small loss of front free endpaper to Vol I. Small loss as a result of rubbing to rear board of Vol VI. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot. Offsetting to title page of Vol I. Ink inscription to first blank of all volumes. Very light age toning. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

London, (G. Woodfall) for F.C. and J. Rivington and others, 1822. Bound in 6 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. 6 titleengravings. A good copy.