[Rarebooks] F.S. Shelley - Clarke/Cowden Shakespear

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For your consideration: Please excuse me if this was a double listing, I do 
not remember seeing it posted, after sent on 11/3/06

(Heritage Book Shop has this listed for $1,200)
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 10 Volumes, Shelley, Percy
Bysshe; Ingpen, Roger and Peck, Walter E. (Editors), Shelley, Percy Bysshe;
Ingpen, Roger and Peck, Walter E. (Editors), Ernest Benn Limited, 1927:
Epipsychidion: Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady, Emilia;
Adonis: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats; Editorial notes. Vol. III., Ed.
Preface; Hellas: A Lyrical Drama; Early Poems, 1802-1813; Poems from St.
Irvyne or the Rosicrucian; Poems Written In: 1814-1815; 1816; 1817; 1818;
1819; Editorial Notes. Vol. IV., Continues his poetry written in 1820
through 1822 (with note on Poems of 1822 by Mrs. Shelley; Translations:
Hymns of Homer: To Mercury, Castor and Pollux, Minerva, The Sun, Moon,
Earth, Mother of All, Venus, etc. Appendix: The Wandering Jew; Editorial
Notes: Index of Titles; Index of First Lines. Vol., V. Prose, with Preface
by the Editor, and Mrs. Shelley. Vol. VI., Continuation of Prose. Vol.,
VII., Ed. Preface: Prose, Translations, Speeches (appendix). Vol. VIII.,
Letters: Ed. Preface; Notes on Shelley's Correspondents; Early Letters, July
18, 1802 to March 2, 1811; Poland Street and Field Place, March 29, to July
4, 1811; Harriet Westbrook, July 15, to Nov., 1, 1811; Keswick, November 6,
1811, to January 29, 1812; Shelley's Irish Campaign, February 3 to March 20,
1812; Nantgwillt, April 16 to June 18, 1812; Index to Notes on
Correspondents.  Vol. IX., Letters, 1812 to 1818: Lynmouth, Tanyrallt, and
Second Visit to Dublin, June 30, 1812 to April 3, 1813; Last Days with
Harriet, April 5, 1813 to May 14, 1814; First Visit to the Continent, August
13, 1814 to June 22, 1815; Bishopsgate - Alastor, August, 1815 to April
1816, etc. List of Shelley's Letters, by Date. Vol. X., Letters, 1818 to
1822. Green cloth boards, gilt line decorations, quarter vellum spines,
black leather title panel to spines with gilt lettering. Volume I, first few
lower corners mildly dog eared. Various e.p.'s have mild foxing. Volumes VI,
VII, VIII, chips to title panels. Text very clean, all volumes tightly
bound. The Julian Editions. Each volume approximately 400 pp. , tall 8 vo.
Beautiful edition of these important works. Very Good +  $875.00

The Works of William Shakespeare, 4 Volumes, Clarke, Charles and Mary
Cowden, Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of Text, J.B. Lippincott & Co.,
Philadelphia, 1875: 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. 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 has two chips to title panel on
spine, lettering intact.  All editions have mild rubbing and to extremities.
Previous owners has stamped name to 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 . Very good, $200.00

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