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	CHALMERS (GEORGE): A Supplemental Apology for The Believers in the Shakespeare-Papers: Being a Rely to Mr. Malone's Answer, which was early announced, but never published: with A Dedication to George Steevens..., and A Postscript to T. J. Mathias.... London: Printed for Thomas Egerton..., 1799. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 216 x 134 mms., pp. viii, 654 [655 - 666 Errata], early 19th century half calf, marbled boards, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label. A very good copy with the Warwick Castle bookplate and the bookseller's ticket of H. T. Cooke on the front paste-down end-paper. Chalmers (1742 - 1825) was one of many who was taken in by the Shakespearean forgeries of Samuel Ireland, and this is one of three works that he wrote on the subject. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 6394 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	FARQUHAR (GEORGE): The Recruiting Officer. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden, By His Majesty's Servants. London, Printed for T. Caslon, T. Lowndes, T. Becket and W. Nicoll, 1771. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 72 including half-title, disbound; text foxed, last page soiled. ESTC on-line locates copies at BL, Trinity College Cambridge, Bodleian, Folger, Rice University, University of Texas, and University of Otago. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 3722 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[HEATH (BENJAMIN)]: A Revisal of Shakespear's Text, wherein The Alterations introduced into it by the modern Editors and Critics, are particularly considered. London: Printed for W. Johnson..., 1765. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiv, [vi], 573 [574 blank], contemporary calf (worn and rubbed); rear joint cracked, front cover detached, spine creased, ex-library. Not a wonderful copy physically, but it has two other attractive features: one leaf (probably A8) is present both in cancelled and uncancelled state. The cancellandum contains Postscript (recto) and Errata (verso), with the leaf cut from the bottom (and, alas, repaired with tape); this leaf is followed by what appears to be a double with Postscript, 2 pp. contents, and Errata. An undated London Library sticker (with cancellation stamp!) is on the front paste-down end-paper: Life Membership was then available for £26. Heath's work is dedicated to Henry Home, Lord Kames; Heath approves of Theobald's emendations but is rather less enthusiastic about those of Warburton. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 2785 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	RICHARDSON (WILLIAM): Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon of Athens. To which are added, An Essay on the Faults of Shakespeare; and Additional Observations on the Character of Hamlet. London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1784. 1784. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], vi, 170, stout library buckram; lacks adverts leaves, ex-library, with library stamp in blind on title-page, last two leaves detached at inner margin, library pocket on rear paste-down end-paper. W. Zachs, The First John Murray (1998) 442 GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 \| JP¥ 8071] Book number: 4604 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHAKESPEARE. [TAYLOR (EDWARD)]: Cursory Remarks on Tragedy, on Shakespear, and on certain French and Italian Poets, principally Tragedians. London: Printed for W. Owen..., 1774. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. ix [x blank], 242 [243 - 244 adverts], including half-title, 19th century sheepskin, with spine severely wormed, but joints firm; probably a continental binding, to judge from the end-papers. Taylor (?1741 - 1797) is identified as the author of this work in two copies in the BL, with ms. attributions to him on the title-page. The work has also been attributed to William Richardson, Professor of Humanity at Glasgow, and Joseph Ritson. Richardson wrote four books on Shakespeare, and this volume seems unlikely to be by him; the style is certainly different, as is the conduct of the argument. The contemporary name of Susanna Taylor appears on the title-page and has been scored through with the next owner adding his or her name at the top of the title-page; one of these hands has made a few ms. corrections to Taylor's punctuation and capitalization. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 4318 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's England. An Account of the Life and Manners of his Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, pp. xxiv, 546 [547 printer's imprint, 548 blank]; x [xi abbreviations, xii blank], 610 [611 printer's imprint, 612 blank], frontispiece in each volume, with about 200 illustrations throughout the two volumes, original cloth; a good set with the dust-wrappers, slightly worn, and with the dust-wrapper on volume two having a clean tear from the edge of the spine to the middle of the wrapper. GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 111 US$ 166.1 \| JP¥ 14674] Book number: 3715 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHAKESPEARE. PARR (WOLSTENHOLME): The Story of the Moor of Venice. Translated from the Italian. With Two Essays of Shakespeare, and Preliminary Observations. London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies..., 1795. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 91 [92 blank], including half-title, disbound. With the contemporary autograph "J Hall/ Barlow" on the top margin of the half-title. The Story of the Moor of Venice is translated from the Hecatommithi of Giambattista Giraldi. Parr's two essays are on Coriolanus and, of course, Othello. This was Parr's first publication, and he published two further translations in the 1820s. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 4508 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	CHALMERS (GEORGE): A Supplemental Apology for The Believers in the Shakespeare-Papers: Being a Rely to Mr. Malone's Answer, which was early announced, but never published: with A Dedication to George Steevens..., and A Postscript to T. J. Mathias.... London: Printed for Thomas Egerton..., 1799. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 216 x 134 mms., pp. viii, 654 [655 - 666 Errata], early 19th century half calf, marbled boards, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label. A very good copy with the Warwick Castle bookplate and the bookseller's ticket of H. T. Cooke on the front paste-down end-paper. Chalmers (1742 - 1825) was one of many who was taken in by the Shakespearean forgeries of Samuel Ireland, and this is one of three works that he wrote on the subject. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 6394 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	FARQUHAR (GEORGE): The Recruiting Officer. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden, By His Majesty's Servants. London, Printed for T. Caslon, T. Lowndes, T. Becket and W. Nicoll, 1771. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 72 including half-title, disbound; text foxed, last page soiled. ESTC on-line locates copies at BL, Trinity College Cambridge, Bodleian, Folger, Rice University, University of Texas, and University of Otago. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 3722 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[HEATH (BENJAMIN)]: A Revisal of Shakespear's Text, wherein The Alterations introduced into it by the modern Editors and Critics, are particularly considered. London: Printed for W. Johnson..., 1765. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiv, [vi], 573 [574 blank], contemporary calf (worn and rubbed); rear joint cracked, front cover detached, spine creased, ex-library. Not a wonderful copy physically, but it has two other attractive features: one leaf (probably A8) is present both in cancelled and uncancelled state. The cancellandum contains Postscript (recto) and Errata (verso), with the leaf cut from the bottom (and, alas, repaired with tape); this leaf is followed by what appears to be a double with Postscript, 2 pp. contents, and Errata. An undated London Library sticker (with cancellation stamp!) is on the front paste-down end-paper: Life Membership was then available for £26. Heath's work is dedicated to Henry Home, Lord Kames; Heath approves of Theobald's emendations but is rather less enthusiastic about those of Warburton. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 2785 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	RICHARDSON (WILLIAM): Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon of Athens. To which are added, An Essay on the Faults of Shakespeare; and Additional Observations on the Character of Hamlet. London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1784. 1784. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], vi, 170, stout library buckram; lacks adverts leaves, ex-library, with library stamp in blind on title-page, last two leaves detached at inner margin, library pocket on rear paste-down end-paper. W. Zachs, The First John Murray (1998) 442 GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 \| JP¥ 8071] Book number: 4604 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHAKESPEARE. [TAYLOR (EDWARD)]: Cursory Remarks on Tragedy, on Shakespear, and on certain French and Italian Poets, principally Tragedians. London: Printed for W. Owen..., 1774. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. ix [x blank], 242 [243 - 244 adverts], including half-title, 19th century sheepskin, with spine severely wormed, but joints firm; probably a continental binding, to judge from the end-papers. Taylor (?1741 - 1797) is identified as the author of this work in two copies in the BL, with ms. attributions to him on the title-page. The work has also been attributed to William Richardson, Professor of Humanity at Glasgow, and Joseph Ritson. Richardson wrote four books on Shakespeare, and this volume seems unlikely to be by him; the style is certainly different, as is the conduct of the argument. The contemporary name of Susanna Taylor appears on the title-page and has been scored through with the next owner adding his or her name at the top of the title-page; one of these hands has made a few ms. corrections to Taylor's punctuation and capitalization. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 4318 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's England. An Account of the Life and Manners of his Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, pp. xxiv, 546 [547 printer's imprint, 548 blank]; x [xi abbreviations, xii blank], 610 [611 printer's imprint, 612 blank], frontispiece in each volume, with about 200 illustrations throughout the two volumes, original cloth; a good set with the dust-wrappers, slightly worn, and with the dust-wrapper on volume two having a clean tear from the edge of the spine to the middle of the wrapper. GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 111 US$ 166.1 \| JP¥ 14674] Book number: 3715 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHAKESPEARE. PARR (WOLSTENHOLME): The Story of the Moor of Venice. Translated from the Italian. With Two Essays of Shakespeare, and Preliminary Observations. London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies..., 1795. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 91 [92 blank], including half-title, disbound. With the contemporary autograph "J Hall/ Barlow" on the top margin of the half-title. The Story of the Moor of Venice is translated from the Hecatommithi of Giambattista Giraldi. Parr's two essays are on Coriolanus and, of course, Othello. This was Parr's first publication, and he published two further translations in the 1820s. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 4508 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.