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Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Dr Samuel Johnson's novella, 'The History of Rasselas', in an attractively leather binding. This work is an apologue, or allegorical story, about happiness and suffering. Illustrated, with drawings by Richard Westall. With an engraved title page and three plates. This work was written so that Johnson could help to pay the costs of his mother's funeral, hence why the work was written in a week. The work concerns a young man travelling in the company of a teacher to encounter and examine human suffering in order to determine the root of happiness. In a full calf binding with gilt stamping to the spine and to the board edges. Externally, generally smart with rubbing to the joints and extremities. Loss to the head and tail of spine due to rubbing. Marks to front board. Prior owner's inscriptions to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Some minor offsetting from plates. Occasional spots. Very Good. Richard Westall (Illustrator) (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Good. Folios. 31.3 x 41.3 cm. 9 volumes. Original calf with gilt dentelles along the edges of the covers; gilt spine and edges; the heavy covers reattached with matching binding material by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. . Scattered foxing, mainly light.few pages with tears. Total weight about 140 pounds. Will be shipped in 3 heavy boxes.OCLC 5503043: Contents: v. 1. Prefaces of Pope and Johnson to the Dramatic works of Shakspeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure.v. 2. Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream.v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well.v. 4. Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth ; King John.v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V.v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III.v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra.v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Titus Adronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline.v. 9. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.Notes:Originally issued in 18 parts in 1791 and 1802 [i.e. 1803?]The edition is based upon the 1790 Malone and 1793 Steevens editionsVolume title pages, with "volume" designation, are all dated 1802With a dedication leaf "To the King's most excellent majesty" dated June 4th, 1803, signed John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol; advertisement signed "G.N." in v. 1Letterpress printed.Plays are paginated separately, have no signatures, and are bound in no designated order.Each play has a colophon reading: From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & CoNo table of contents or list of plates is given, but the plates correspond with the list given in "Boydell's Graphic illustrations of the dramatic works of Shakspeare," a separate issue of the plates, except that the latter lacks a variation of the first plate in Richard III (Gloster and the princes) while it has in addition (as frontispiece) "Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy, " a portrait of John Boydell, a variation of Juliet's supposed death, and a second plate in Titus Adronicus (Lavinia nursing her young nephew, by T. Kirk)."Boydell's Graphic illustrations &c." must not be confused with their "Collection of prints, from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakspeare," London, 1803, two large folios containing larger plates (100, including the portraits of the King and Queen prefixed, and the two title-vignettes) most of which are entirely different from these smaller platesPlates, dated 1791-1803, are mainly by R. Smirke, W. Hamilton, R. Westall, F. Wheatley, James Northcote, with a few each by Reynolds, Opie, Stothard, and others. Among the engravers who executed the greatest number of plates are James Parker, Anker Smith, and James Heath.…