Buy this book on-line Shakespeare, William : THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHNFor Jacob Tonson, London, 1709
(An extract from the first Rowe edition of 1709 issued in 6 volumes). Pages 977-104, with frontis mounted on acid-free paper. The frontispieces are important because of their contemporary costumes. Tonson's work was the first edition after the folios, first octavo edition, first illustrated edition, first edition to put the plays into the 5 act format, first manual text and the first edition to bear an editor's name. Handsomely bound in recent full brown leather decoratively tooled in blind, spine lettering gilt, marbled endpapers, some browning to the text, frontispiece laid down, light wear to fore-edges and corners of text. [Jaggard, p. 497] Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Shakespeare, William : THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, livres rares, livres anciens, out-of-print books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |