GREAT GIFTS 102 Knight’s Illustrated “Imperial” Shakespeare 151 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of Shakspere. Imperial Edition. London, 1873. Two volumes. Thick folio, contemporary full crimson morocco gilt. $5200 The magisterial Victorian “Imperial Edition” of the Bard’s works, edited by Charles Knight, two folio volumes illustrated with 41 steel-engraved plates, including a frontispiece and additional engraved title page in each volume, handsomely bound. Includes all of the comedies, tragedies, histories, poems and sonnets, 13 other plays outside the canon ascribed to Shakespeare, Knight’s notes on each drama, and indices. Near-fine. Cicero’s Orations, 1559, From The Famed Aldine Press 152 CICERO. Orationum. Pars I. Venetiis, 1559. Octavo, 20th-century full brown morocco gilt. $1750 Second edition of the first volume of Paulus Manutius’ important edition of Cicero’s orations, from his famed Aldine press in Venice, with the Aldine anchor and dolphin imprint on the title page and colophon. Editor and publisher Paulus Manutius was the son of famed Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius, founder of the Aldine press in 1495. The Aldine press was a vital source of publications of classical Latin and Greek authors during the Renaissance. Manutius first published his edition of Cicero’s Orations in 1554. Text in Latin. Fine. “No Man Is An Island” 153 DONNE, John. Selections from the Works. WITH: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Oxford, 1840, 1841. Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century full black morocco gilt. $1750 Later editions of Donne’s devotional prose and poetry, in two volumes with wood-engraved title pages, beautifully bound in elaborately gilt-decorated full morocco by Riviere. The Devotions contains one of the most celebrated passages in the English language: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee” (Meditation 17, pp. 195-96). Fine. With 37 Impressive Steel Engravings 150(DORE, Gustave) TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the King. London, 1868. Thick folio, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $6500 First edition of Tennyson’s Arthurian classic with illustrations by Doré, boasting 37 masterful full-page steel engravings by him, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt. “By the early 19th century, the Arthurian legends had become a literary anachronism. Tennyson’s poetry brought about a rebirth of interest in the material and eventually placed it on a new plateau of respect and significance for writers and artists” (Lacy, 446). Near-fine.
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