Search Results: the pictorial edition of the works by charles knight editor

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son Green cloth boards are scuffed, edges rubbed, a little fraying on edges, tips are chipped. Front inside hinge is very weak. Pages are lightly tanning, some foxing around end pages, no markings in text. . Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Peter Penelon Collier. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover is f.

Peter Penelon Collier, 1893. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover is s.

P F Collier, 1888. 2nd edition, revised. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover is f.

NY: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. Dark turquoise cloth boards with burgundy leather, spinecover missing, boards detached, leather on back corner very chipped. End pages detached, but present. Text pages are clean with no marking. Half Leather. Poor/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No. 9.80 x 6.40 x 1.20 inches. This edition of the Pictorial Works of Shakspere was published by P.F. Collier c. 1900 [undated] as an 8 volume set, (I have several of the remaining volumes in my collection for sale). The green cloth covers look nice with gold embossed artwork and titles. Edges of text block are dyed red with black speckles. Frontipiece and tissue are intact. Good condition. The covers show edge wear particularly to the corners which are worn to the boards. The hinges are beginning to crack, but the pages are all intact. The interior pages are unmarked. There is a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Knight, Charles

New York: P. F. Collier, 1888. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No. 9.80 x 6.50 x 1.10 inches. This edition of the Pictorial Works of Shakspere was published by P.F. Collier c. 1888-1900 [undated] as an 8 volume set, (I have several of the remaining volumes in my collection for sale). The green cloth covers look nice with gold embossed artwork and titles. Edges of text block are dyed red with black speckles. Frontipiece and tissue are intact. Good condition. The covers show edge wear particularly to the corners which are worn to the boards. The hinges are beginning to crack, but the pages are all intact. The interior pages are unmarked. There is a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Knight, Charles

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No. 9.80 x 6.50 x 1.00 inches. This edition of the Pictorial Works of Shakspere was published by P.F. Collier c. 1900 [undated] as an 8 volume set, (I have several of the remaining volumes in my collection for sale). The green cloth covers look nice with gold embossed artwork and titles. Edges of text block are dyed red with black speckles. Frontipiece and tissue are intact. Good condition. The covers show edge wear particularly to the corners which are worn to the boards. The hinges are beginning to crack, but the pages are all intact. The interior pages are unmarked. There is a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Knight, Charles

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No. 9.75 x 6.30 x 1.00 inches. Histories, Volume II (Vol. 6 of 8 V. set). This RARE edition of the Pictorial Works of Shakspere was published by P.F. Collier c. 1900 [undated] as an 8 volume set, (I have several of the remaining volumes in my collection for sale). The green cloth covers look nice with gold embossed artwork and titles. Edges of text block are dyed red with black speckles. Frontipiece and tissue are intact. Good condition. The covers show edge wear particularly to the corners which are worn to the boards. Boards are lightly water stained. The hinges are beginning to crack, but the pages are all intact. The interior pages are unmarked. There is a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Knight, Charles

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1900. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No. 9.80 x 6.50 x 1.20 inches. A Biographys (Vol. 7 of 8 V. Pictorial Edition set). This RARE edition of the Pictorial Works of Shakspere was published by P.F. Collier c. 1900 [undated] as an 8 volume set, (I have several of the remaining volumes in my collection for sale). The green cloth covers look nice with gold embossed artwork and titles. Edges of text block are dyed red with black speckles. Frontipiece and tissue are intact. Good condition. The covers show edge wear particularly to the corners which are worn to the boards. Boards are lightly water stained. The hinges are beginning to crack, but the pages are all intact. The interior pages are unmarked. There is a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Knight, Charles

P. F. Collier. Hardcover. Good. [nd], ca 1890. Eight volume set, complete. Brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration, with rubbing, shelf-wear, age-soil, and the gilt at spine faded/obscured. Slight wear to inner hinges, where threads have poked through endsheets, but the exposed threads are sound tight with the bindings intact. Pages toned, texts unmarked.

New York: P. F. Collier Includes: Comedies in 2 volumes - Volumes 3 and 4; Histories in 2 volumes - Volumes 5 and 6; "William Shakspere: A Biography" by Charles Knight in Volume 7; Doubtful Plays, etc. in Volume 8. Volume 8 is called the supplemental volume. Second Edition Revised. Preface of the biography states it is a new edition with large alterations and additional material based upon a volume published in 1843. No date but 1865 according to the preface in the Biography volume stating it has been 22 years since the 1843 first edition. Beautiful original matching publishers bindings - reddish brown cloth blindstamped and stamped in gilt and black with pictorial on spines. 4to 9 7/8" tall x 6 3/4". Speckled page edges. Numerous text figure engravings as well as 4 or more beautiful full page plate engravings per volume printed on thick paper. Number of pages per volume: 456pp; 446pp; 390pp; 485pp; 553pp and 507pp. A partial set missing the Tragedies in 2 volumes - Volume 1 and 2… Read More

P. F. Collier & Son, 1888. First Thus. Leather Binding. Very Good. 8 volumes, complete as issued. Bound in 3/4 plum calf over green cloth, spines decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, patterned endpapers (spines faded to brown with light rubbing, one volume has a small partial gouge to spine). Bookplates of Marcia A. Babcock in each volume.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1867. Second Edition, revised. Half Morocco over Marbled Boards. Very Good. All Shakespeare's Tragedies, Comedies and Histories abundantly illustrated in 8 volumes with woodcut engravings. 4to, 10 by 7.25 inches, or 24 by 17 cm. Bound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, a marbled-edged text block, and with raised bands and gilt lettering to the spine. A fair amount of external wear with rubbing to the corners, surfaces and edges of the boards and spines. Bindings are all tight, and generally interiors are clean, with light age toning. (Some light foxing on blank preliminaries, and the like.) Tiny bookplate pasted onto FEP. Mark left on Vol 1 title from bookclip.

Peter Fenelon Collier Hard Cover - Good - No dust jackets if issued - (8 Volume Set) - - (SHIPPING IN U.S. AND BY MEDIA RATE ONLY) - Circa 1870's. -- Other than edge wear and tear to spine of Volume 6 books are clean and tight - Illustrated - Volume I: Tragedies. Frontispiece portrait, tissue, engraved title, 471 pp. Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Cymbeline; Othello; Timon of Athens; King Lear. Illustrated throughout with engravings, full page and in-text and engraved plates of famous actors playing the primary roles. Volume II: Frontispiece plate, tissue, second frontispiece, engraved title. 516 pp. Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Supplementary Notice to the Three Roman Plays; Poems and Supplementary notice to the poems. Volume III: Frontispiece, Frontispiece plate, tissue, engraved title. 456 pp. Two Gentlemen of Verona; Love's Labour's Lost; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Comedy of Errors; Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer-Night's Dream; The… Read More

New York: P. F. Collier. , (c.1880). A good set.. Edition: Revised Second Edition. , Binding: contemporary full publisher’s decorative green cloth boards, title in gilt on decoratively illustrated flat spine, title in gilt and black ink on the upper board, upper board with decorative debossed rules and motifs and gilt portraits and central device, lower board with decorative blind ruled motifs, edges in red. , Notes: William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright., Size: Quarto (4to.), , Volume: 7 volumes (of 8),… Read More

London, Virtue & Co.; Routledge, Warne, and Routledge; George Routledge and Sons, 1866. . Second edition, 8 vols; 4to (25.5 x 18 cm); bookplate to front pastedowns, ownership inscription to Histories vol. II, numerous illustrations; half brown pebble-grain morocco, red cloth boards, gilt spine in 6 compartments, marbled edges, a few scuffs to corners and edges, light spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. An attractive, illustrated eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays, including his doubtful works, with a biography of the bard by the editor Charles Knight. The volume of doubtful plays includes the tragedy Titus Andronicus, and the comedies Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen, all of which are now commonly included in lists of Shakespeare's canonical dramatic works.