19th Century Books

Edited by Howard Staunton. With Copious Notes, Glossary, Life &c.London: George Routledge and Sons. [1881].The Bard in beautiful blue calf6 volumes. Octavo. 225x150mm. Beautifully bound in contemporary dark blue half calf. Spine with 5 raised bands, compartments intricately and lavishly decorated in gilt. Red and brown labels lettered in gilt. All edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Some light shelfwear but overall a stunning binding in near fine condition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare. Volume 1 includes an introductory Preface and biography with an Appendix, Shakespeare's Will, Preliminary Matter on the 1623 Folio and Commendatory Verses. Each play has annotations.

A Register of two thousand names. A record written in black and white, but more in white than black. With a European Roll. "It is nothing, if it is not truth".Lovedale: South Africa. Printed at the Mission Press.. 1887.First edition. 210x135mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], [5]- 642. Register 3L is missing 3M has been printed in duplicate - clearly a printer's error. Light brown cloth, lettered in black. Edges and corner worn, spine and boards marked. Head and foot of spine bumped and joints rubbed.