[Binding, Fine- Frank Garrett] The Sonnets of Shakespeare por Shakespeare, William - 1895

London: Hacon and Ricketts, 1896. blue paper-covered boards, paper spine and cover label. Vale Press. 8vo. blue paper-covered boards, paper spine and cover label. 74 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 310 numbered copies. (Ransom and Tomkinson no.5, L'Art Ancien no.25). With bookplate, "From the Library of Ann Saddlemyer." Some discoloration to the endpapers from the binder's glue, else a tight, bright, and unmarred copy. Edited by T. Sturge Moore. First page embellished with an engraved figure and margin decorations. Many decorative initials throughout. All engraved by Charles Ricketts. Printed in Vale type on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper with the Vale watermark.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1851. Two volumes bound as one in contemporary red morocco, the front and back covers featuring a lavishly gilt scene with Shakespeare's bust atop a monument with two cherubs hanging a garland of flowers, and two seated ladies in robes.All edges gilt, plain pale yellow end papers. Unsigned. With forty illustrations, including frontis portrait of Shakespeare. A lovely example of fine American binding of the period. Very Good Plus, light wear at edges, toning to end papers and scattered mild to moderate toning throughout. v, 466, 535, 10 (glossary), 10 pp publisher adverts. . First Edition Thus. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Thick 8vo.

London: sold by Hacon & Ricketts, printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Ricketts, 1903. publisher's green blind-stamped cloth. Vale Press. 8vo. publisher's green blind-stamped cloth. 69, (2) pages. First Vale Press edition, first impression. From the Vale Press edition of Shakespeare's Plays. (Watry, B44/36). Partially unopened. Minor bump to the bottom corner of the front board, else a fine copy. Very scarce. The decorations were designed by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), a publisher, designer, and wood engraver who readily embraced the printing revival which propagated the ideals of the arts-and-crafts movement: "The novelty of a book, made during the recent revival, lies in the fact that it shows design in each portion of it, from type to paper, and from 'build' to decoration. Therein lies the difference between a book so understood and any other modern book printed before 1891.". Franklin, p. 81; Ransom, p. 437.

[London]: [by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot], [1632]. From the famed Second Folio of Shakespeare's Plays. Folio leaf, unbound. Comprising pages 103 and 104. A very well preserved leaf. A LEAF OF ONE OF SHAKESPEARE'S MOST FAMOUS AND OFT' PRODUCED PLAYS EXTRACTED FROM THE SECOND FOLIO. The Second Folio edition of his COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES, is a cornerstone--and some would say foundation--of English literature. While the complete Second Folio is one of the book collector's great prizes, a status well reflected in its price these days, this is an opportunity to acquire a single leaf from one of the most popular plays.

First edition of this translation.
This translation of 'Hamlet' was completed by the translator and publisher Aleksandr Sokolovskii (1837-1915). It is noteworthy that starting from the 1860s, he embarked on the translation of all of Shakespeare's works, compiling them into a collection and publishing it in eight volumes (1894-1898). In recognition of these translations, Sokolovskii was awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1901, the most prestigious literary accolade in pre-revolutionary Russia. It's also worth mentioning that Sokolovskii's translation of 'Romeo and Juliet' served as the textual basis for Pyotr Tchaikovsky's planned opera, of which only a fifteen-minute overture-fantasia remains.Sokolovskii, along with other translators of Shakespeare's works in his time, sought to dispel the romantic aura surrounding the image of the Danish prince. As highlighted by Sokolovskii in the preface, his main goal was 'to make Shakespeare a Russian poet, understandable without any explanation, just as our own… Ler mais

London: Moon, Boys, & Graves, 1832. Full Leather. Very Good binding. From the Preface: "The present collection of Shakspeare's Plays differs in arrangement from any that has hitherto been published. The Tragedies, Comedies and Historical Plays are divided; and in each division, the consecutive order of the pieces has reference to the country in which the action is laid, or to the epoch at which it is supposed to have taken place". Certainly a unique approach, coupled with printing of all of the plays as pages octavo in size and arranged consecutively, four on each folio page. Illustrated with 100 engraved plates, including two engraved portraits of Shakespeare. The Moon, Boys & Graves concern obtained the plates from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and the dramatic images are "depicted from the powerful pencils of Reynolds, Opie, Northcote, Smirke, Stothard, Westall, Howard, Romney, and others" [Preface]. There are as well numerous text illustrations grouped in 8vo. size. Most of the plates… Ler mais

Translation by A. Radlova. Preface by K. Derzhavin.
Afterword by M. Morozov.
One of 10 000 copies published.
Signed and inscribed by the translator: "Dorogoi moei Sarushke / ot Annushki. / 20-X-37" [To my dear Sarushka from Annushka. October 20, 1937].
First edition of this translation.
Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet, literary salon-holder, and wife of Sergei Radlov, the theatre director, prepared the translation of this book. Her Shakespeare translations of Romeo and Juliet (1933), Othello (1935), and Hamlet (1937) were highly popular in the early 1930s and were used in the theatre productions by her husband in the Leningrad Malyi Theater. Radlova's translations were considered innovative and precise, and Boris Pasternak, the next translator of Hamlet, admired her work for its authenticity. During World War II, Anna and her husband were evacuated from Leningrad to the North Caucasus and later ended up in Germany. In 1945 after returning they were accused of treason. Anna Radlova died in a GULAG.… Ler mais