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The Old-Spelling Shakespeare: Being the Works of Shakespeare in the Spelling of the best Quarto and Folio Texts. 9 volumes.
by SHAKESPEARE, William, edited by F.J. Furnivall (and others)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Duffield & Company; London: Chatto & Windus, 1908 - 1909 Nine variously paginated octavo volumes only (of thirteen), one of 1000 sets of which 500 "are reserved for America" Publisher's gray cloth backed in vellum, lettered in red & black on the spines Top edges gilt, the others uncut.
Bindings soiled & lightly spotted, vellum browned, text tanned & occasionally foxed, previous owner's name at ffep in one volume, good or so & still quite serviceable.
Inexplicably, one volume does not include the limitation statement.
Please note, shipping weight is 8 pounds Please inquire for international rates.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 901
- Title
- The Old-Spelling Shakespeare: Being the Works of Shakespeare in the Spelling of the best Quarto and Folio Texts. 9 volumes.
- Author
- SHAKESPEARE, William, edited by F.J. Furnivall (and others)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duffield & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908 -1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, Limited edition, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Great Britain, United Kingdom;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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About the Seller
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
Biblio member since 2014
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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