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London: Frederick Warne and Co., The 'Imperial' Poets series, n.d. [1890s]. First edition thus. xvi, 1136, illustrated with six mounted tissue-guarded photographs from Poulton's Series, each titled and set in a red ruled border: Shakspeare from the Chandos picture (frontis); Anne Hathaway's Cottage; Shakspeare's Birthplace; View of the Forum at Rome; The Tower of London; and View of Venice in the Present Day (showing the Doge's Palace). All are sepia and rather darkened, but otherwise in very good condition. The prelims include a Preface, a Memoir of Shakspeare, and Shakspeare's Will: the 24-page Glossary is at the back. Printed double-column, and all in very good clean condition. Marbled endpapers, the front pastedown bearing an 1899 prize label of Royal College, Mauritius, attached only at its centre. In the Prize Binding of navy calf, with the Royal College's arms in gilt to the front, and with a decorative border and dentelles, spine full gilt with five raised bands and a crimson label, binding recently restored with Japanese tissue. A very nice firm copy of a scarce edition. Very Good+.
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Price: £220.00

Calcutta: Johnston & Hoffmann, n.d. [c.1910?] Presumed first and only edition. As issued, with no title page, publication details or text pages. 22 photographs, clear and unfaded, each mounted recto on heavy card page with printed caption. Includes street, factory and harbour scenes. Plain paper endpapers. Very faint browning to page edges, otherwise contents very clean. Landscape quarto, in the original binding of three-quarter navy buckram with green cloth boards titled in gilt. Boards firm, bright and clean, with 3 small indentations on front, and spine ends slightly puckered. Johnston & Hoffmann (elsewhere spelt Hoffman) were notable photographers, with a studio in Calcutta. [Volume I, Cultivation and Preparation, also available]. Near Fine.
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Price: £180.00

Taschen, 2004. First edition. 112pp, photographs. To accompany the exhibition. Text in English, German and French. Contents fresh, clean and unmarked. Large quarto, in the original black paper-covered boards titled in blind, and in the vivid pictorial dust jacket, almost as new but very slightly knocked to the edges. Near Fine.
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Price: £40.00