Set of 12 Miniature Volumes bound in Faux Leather, with Brass-colored Metal Bookends
“Midget” Classics. Burgess & Bowes, London. Unabridged. Size:
William Shakespeare’s plays in the set are:
As You Like It Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar Othello
King Henry the Fifth Romeo and Juliet
King Lear Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth Twelfth Night
Each play is bound separately, with a glossary and selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Each volume is bound in faux leather, 2 books each in red, blue, green, maroon, brown, and black, with gilt titles, marbled page edges, and textured endpapers. Gilt spine lettering.
Bookends are miniature reproductions of Rodin’s “The Thinker” in brass-colored metal on glossy black pedestals. 3 inches high overall, pedestal is 1 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches, copyright by Sculpture Masterworks, New York. [21054-1903]
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Nine Leather Bound books from “Shakespeare’s Works” (Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co., New York). Size: 2-1/8” x 2-7/8”. The titles are as follows:
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Midsummers Night Dream
Julius Caesar
Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
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12 Shakespeare Books in its own Leather Box (Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co, New York, 1910-1920). Size: 2.25" x 3". The titles are as follows:
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
Midsummers Night Dream
Julius Caesar
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
As You Like It
Merchant of Venice
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24 Shakespeare Books (Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co, New York, 1910-1920). Sizes: 2.25" x 3.25"
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Burgess & Bowes “Midget Classics” Colorfully Bound Books printed in Belgium (London). Set in matching cardboard case. Book Sizes: 2-1/8” x 3”
As You Like It Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet A Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar Othello
King Henry the Fifth Romeo and Juliet
King Lear Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth Twelfth Night
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Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Bound by hand in beige English Leather, Burgess & Bowes Midget Classics, London). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
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Hamlet (R.C. Brady Ltd., U.K. nd). Real leather (but mimics the Midget Classics). Size: 2.25" x 3.25"
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Antony and Cleopatra (David Bryce and Son and Frederick A. Stones, Glasgow / New York, 1904). Size: 1.5" x 2"
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MACBETH (Glasgow: David Bryce and Son. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, 1904). SIZE: 1.25” x 2”
The title page reads: "Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner."
The verso of the title page reads in part: "Printed at the University Press, Glasgow. MCMIV." [1904]
The half-title page reads: "Macbeth by William Shakespeare Carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J. Talfourd Blair."
There is a small book-seller's label inside the front board which reads: "J. Burroughs, Books and Souvenirs, Tudor House, Stratford-on-Avon."
Illustrated with a full page frontispiece illustration and a headpiece ornament at the start.
The book measures 2 X 1 1/4 inches; (64mo); hardcover; blue cloth spine with faux-vellum boards; boards stained, soiled & warped; spine label held on by old yellowing piece of cellophane tape; cloth stained & soiled; edges worn; red book-sellers label staining end-papers; small stains, age toning & foxing spots on end-papers; bends in lower corner of page 161; contents clean; text block tight, no pages loose; 314 pages.
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A Tribute to William Shakespeare's Hamlet by Anita Sipala (Running Press, Philadelphia and London). Size: 2.5" x 2-7/8"
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Size: 2.25" x 3.25"
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SONNETS: Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix & Turtle (David Bryce and Son / Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1904). Size: 1-3/8" x 2"
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(BoPress Miniatures, Riverside, CA, 2009). Size: 1" x 1-3/4"
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Love Sonnets of Shakespeare (Running Press, 1990). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
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Burgess & Bowes “Midget Classics” 5 Blue-and-White Bound Books with Holder (London). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
Macbeth
Hamlet
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
The Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Juliet
[Sixth book is a Geoffrey Parker, not part of this series]
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Fred Rees & Company (Helston, England) Leather-Bound Books (Seller acquired from Globe Theater, London, 1977). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
King Henry the Fifth
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
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Burgess & Bowes “Midget Classics” 6 Cream with Black Letters Bound Books (London). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
Merchant of Venice
Othello, the Moore of Venice
King Lear
Macbeth
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
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Burgess & Bowes “Midget Classics” 6 Cream with Black Letters Bound Books (London). Set into its own case. Book Sizes: 2-1/8”” x 3”
Merchant of Venice
Othello, the Moore of Venice
King Lear
Henry the Fifth
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
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The Merchant of Venice (Burgess & Bowes “Midget Classics”, London). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
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Shakespeare Box Set (Miniature Editions)
(Running Press Miniature Editions, Philadelphia, 2016). Size: 2.75" x 3.25"
The Complete Plays in One Sitting, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. With this collection, readers will have access to comprehensive summaries of each of Shakespeare's 36 famous plays, the most eloquent of Shakespeare's insults, and love sonnets to woo the most sought-after lover. The publication of this box set coincides with the BBC's Shakespeare Project 2016, which celebrates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
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Burgess & Bowes "Midget Classics" Leather-Bound 11 Books (London). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
Othello
Macbeth
As You Like It
Midsummer’s Night Dream
King Henry the Fifth
King Lear
King Lear
Twelfth Night
Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
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The Merchant of Venice (red-covered, David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, antique). Size: 1.5” x 2”
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Midsummer’s Night Dream (H.M. Caldwell Co.’s “Miniature Series,” Boston; printed in Edinburgh, nd but vintage). Size: 2.5” x 3.5”
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SONGS OF SHAKESPEARE (Nimmo Hay & Mitchell "The Miniature Series," Edinburgh, nd). Size: 2-3/8" x 3-3/8"
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SONNETS (Bilingual Russian & English) (Mockba, Russia, 2007)
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SHAKESPEARE & Stratford upon Avon (biography, David Bryce & Son / Frederick A Stokes, Glasgow / New York, 1905). Size: 2-3/8" x 3.5"
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Let Shakespeare Speak by Wilfred Hansford Galliene (Black Cat Press, Chicago, nd). Size: 2-5/8” x 2-3/8”
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A Shakespeare Quiz compiled by Ward Kermit Schori (1993 MBS Conclave Keepsake / Press of Ward Schori, Evanston, IL, 1993). Size: 2-5/8” x 2-1/8”
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Hamlet & Macbeth (Miniature Dictionary Publishers, New York, circa 1910)
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS (Insight Editions, San Rafael, CA, 2019. 2 copies). Size: 1.5" x 2"
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From the Fabulous Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig in der Wartelsteiner GmbH!
Description
--hardcover editions, leather-bound
--1.5" x 2.1"
--set with slip cases
--1.5" x 2.1"
--set with slip cases
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
King John by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
King John by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Much Ado Over Nothing by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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Complete Works of Shakespeare from ALLIED NEWSPAPERS (London)
ND but 1932. Size: 3.5x5x1.5 cm. or 1.25”x 2"
… a 40 volume Complete Works of William Shakespeare printed in Scotland by Andersons Edinburgh Ltd. and published by Allied Newspapers of London.
The individual volumes measure only 50mm in height and are printed in an easily readable 6-point typeface. They feature marbled endpapers, illustrated frontispieces and are bound in a dark “imitation leather” (Rexine) with pale green lettering on the spines.
The set comprises 38 plays each in its own volume, a single volume of sonnets and poems, and a volume which contains a list of the plays, a glossary, and a biography. Each volume contains a summary of the play, a list of characters, and the approximate date of composition.
Although undated, the verso of the title page for the volume containing As You Like It states that it was “One of the plays chosen for presentation for the inauguration of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, April 1932″. The complete set was initially offered as a gift for newspaper subscribers.
Troilus And Cressida
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
All's Well That Ends Well (pages off spine binding)
Coriolanus (pages off spine binding)
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
SONNETS: Lover's Complaint, Passionate Pilgrim, Phoenix and Turtle
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Love's Labour Lost
Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Othello, the Moor of Venice
Measure For Measure
Venus and Adonis ... The Rape of Lucrece
Antony and Cleopatra
Taming of the Shrew
King Richard III
Pericles, Prince of Tyree (pages off spine binding)
Cymbeline
King Henry VI (First Part)
King Henry VI (Second Part) (folded edge to front cover)
King Henry VI (Third Part)
King Lear
Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
King John
Timon of Athens (chipped flyleaf, pages off spine binding)
ADD Romeo and Juliet
Titus Andronicus
King Richard II (pages off spine binding)
Comedy of Errors (Slight rips off front flyleaf until Page 30)
Winter's Tale (pages off spine binding)
King Henry VIII (pages off spine binding and pages away from flyleaf)
Titus Andronicus
Cymbeline (extra copy)
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THE POET OF THEM ALL: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert with text by Elizabeth Fairman and James Reid-Cunningham (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/Distributor Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 2016)
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