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SHAKESPEARE AND CLASSICAL COMEDY.
Oxford University Press. 8vo.,pp. xi,234, hardcover, gilt; ink stamp to title page (‘damaged’), otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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SHAKESPEARE AND OVID.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xv,292, paperback; light soiling to fore-edges, crease to front lower corner, otherwise internally clean and very good.
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE GODDESS OF COMPLETE BEING.
London: Faber and Faber, 1992. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,517, navy hardcover, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight surface soil to fore-edges, internally clean, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE HUNT.
A Cultural and Social Study.
Cambridge University Press, 2001. 8vo., pp.xii,253, black hardcover lettered in silver, 10 b/w illustrations; owner’s handwritten catalogue no. to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight crease to headband, an otherwise fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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'SHAKESPEARE' IDENTIFIED IN EDWARD DE VERE, THE SEVENTEENTH EARL OF OXFORD.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 8vo., pp.xxi,476, blue cloth, gilt,top edges red, b/w frontispiece and 4 further b/w plates; light toning to edges, with light water-marking to top edges, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has creasing, chipping, and loss to extremities - now in a protective cover.
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SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES: The Consummation.
Reprinted from the “Bulletin of the John Rylands Library”, Vol.21, No.2, October, 1937.
Manchester University Press. 8vo.,pp.31, printed wrappers; toning and light creasing to extremities of wrappers, ownership inscription to front wrappers, foxing to margins, a good copy.
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SHAKESPEARE’S INFLUENCE ON SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Company, 1925. 8vo.,pp. xii,508, brown cloth, gilt, gilt to upper edge of text block, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, lightly damp stained to boards, front lower corner slightly knocked, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with light sunning to spine, overall a very good copy.
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SHAKESPEAREAN SUBVERSIONS. The Trickster and the Play-Text.
London/New York: Routledge, 1992. 8vo., pp.ix,284, black cloth lettered in silver; a couple of very minor marginal markings, else a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE BORDER MINSTRELSY.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 8vo., pp.xi,157, cloth, gilt; ownership autograph and small ‘B’ inkstamp to front paste-down endpaper, small inkstamp to lower edges, free endpapers toned, rubbing to extremities, with small spot of wear at headband, some rubbing to boards, a good(+) copy, which is internally clean. No dust-jacket.
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THE BLOOMSDAY BOOK.
A Guide Through Joyce’s Ulysses.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1966. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,275, cloth, gilt; rubbing and light marking to cloth, light vertical crease to spine, internally clean, a good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has a couple of small nicks to extremities, else very good.
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THE CRITICAL ATTITUDE.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp. vii, 190, cloth, gilt, teg., small decoration in blind to rear board; foxing and toning to prelims, very light foxing throughout text, foxing to edges but generally not affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, wear and sunning to boards, overall a good copy.
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THE HOMOEROTICS OF EARLY MODERN DRAMA.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xi,216, paperback; mark from removed price sticker to rear wrapper, a very good+ copy.
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THE INARTICULATE RENAISSANCE. Language Troubles in an Age of Eloquence.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.viii,349, black cloth, gilt, 5 b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE LANGUAGE OF WALTER SCOTT.
A Study of his Scottish and Period Language.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. 8vo., pp.351, brown hardcover, gilt;a very good, clean copy, in lightly sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE LITTLE WORLD OF MAN.
London: Longmans, Green And Co, 1952. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 187, green cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, off setting to endpapers and toning to margins, sunned to spine. light rubbing and marking to boards, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE MUSIC OF HUMANITY. A Critical Study of Wordsworth’s Ruined Cottage incorporating texts from a manuscript of 1799-1800.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1969. 8vo., pp. xvi,293, dark green hardcover, gilt; very light foxing to front free endpaper, foxing to top edge, otherwise internally clean, minor bruise to tail of spine, a very good copy, in a vg price-clipped dust-jacket with light foxing to front flap and rear of jacket, very slight rubbing to extremities and clean 1cm closed tear to rear lower margin, as well as small closed tear to head of spine.
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THE NOTEBOOKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. [Two Volumes in Four]
I. 1794-1804 (2 Parts: TEXT and NOTES); II. 1804-1808 (2 Parts: TEXT and NOTES).
London/New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul/Bollingen Foundation, 1957. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.xlii,546;xlv,615;xx,478;xxxiv,548, burgundy cloth, gilt, coloured top edges, ribbon bookmarks to b/w plates (Vol I. (Text) contains four b/w plates, Vol. II (Text) includes b/w frontispiece and nine b/w plates, with b/w folding map to Vol. II (Notes)); mixed set: the first two parts are uniformly lightly sunned, foxed and mottled to cloth, and slightly musty though internally clean, good(+), the second two parts show some creasing to spines, else are very good indeed. All volumes have slight foxing to fore-edges. No dust-jackets.
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THE OTHER NATION.
The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8vo., pp.xvii,282, black hard covers, gilt; very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket (with crease to price at front flap), which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE PROCESSION OF MASKS.
Boston: B.J. Brimmer Company. Limited edition, no.34 of 128 signed copies, 8vo., pp.267, uncut, t.e.g., half cloth with paper-covered boards, printed paper label to spine and to front board; label to spine sunned, light rubbing to extremities, lower corners a little bumped, a very good, clean copy.
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THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [Set of Three Volumes].
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974. First edition, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxiv,415;vi,465;vii,475, navy cloth, gilt; foxing to top-edges, internally clean, a very good set, in very good price-clipped dust-jackets, of which the jacket to Vol. I has superficial paper damage to front upper right corner and a 0.5 cm closed tear at headband.
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