906. [SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)]. Relics of Shakespeare. From Drawings by Mrs. Phoebe Dighton. 9 coloured plates and 1 plain of places of interest in and around Stratford-on-Avon. Oblong folio, original wrappers.

Stratford-upon-Avon, 1835

VERY RARE. Comprising:-The House in which Shakespeare was born The Room in which Shakespeare was born, A. D. 1563; Shakespeare's Desk at Stratford on Avon; The Font at which Shakespeare was Baptized; Church at Stratford on Avon; Shakespeare's Tomb; The Hall at Charlecote; Interior of Ann Hathaway's House; The House of Ann Hathaway; Ann Hathaway's Bed and Chair.

907. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). Shakspere's Works. Titles printed in red and black. 12 vols., 12mo, full blue levant morocco, backs and sides sumptuously tooled with a rich background of gold exhibiting the floral and foliage designs in relief; doublures of red levant morocco elaborately tooled in gold, flys of crimson moire silk, gilt tops, uncut, by Riviere.

A HANDSOME SET.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886

908. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). The Works of William Shakespeare. The text revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. Portrait frontispiece. 10 vols., 8vo, cloth. London, 1886

In these volumes Mr. Halsey has inserted very many character por traits from the periodicals of the day, together with magazine and news clippings, etc. From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

PRESENTATION SET FROM SIR HENRY IRVING

909. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). WORKS OF. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. With Notes and Instructions of each Play by F. A. Marshall, and other Shakespearian Scholars. With numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne. 8 vols., 4to, most handsomely and elaborately bound by Zaehnsdorf, in full crushed levant morocco, super extra, sides elaborately tooled with floral sprays, full gilt back, contents lettered, g e. London, 1890

PRESENTATION SET FROM SIR HENRY IRVING to Sir Edward Russell, the Celebrated Dramatic Critic, with the following inscription:—

910.

"To E. R. Russell,
from his old friend,
H. Irving.

1890.''

SHAKESPEARE. The Comedies of William Shakespeare. With many Drawings by Edwin A. Abbey. Beautifully illustrated with Etchings and Photogravures. 4 vols., royal 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, gold panel borders on sides, gilt backs, title label inlaid in green morocco, gilt inside borders, gilt tops, uncut. New York: Harper & Bros., 1900

AUTOGRAPH EDITION, limited to 26 lettered copies. The illustrations, 131 in number, are printed on Imperial Japan paper, and the frontispiece of each volume is signed by Mr. Abbey.

911. SHAKESPEARE. Regis Caroli Casus, Of een Appel Aen alle redelijke Menschen, Nopende sijn Examen Voor het Hooge Hof van Justitie. Door Jan Cooke. Small 4to, sewn.

Na de Copy tot London: Gedruckt by Pieter Cole, 1649

A RARE PIECE, containing the FIRST RECORDED MENTION OF SHAKESPEARE

IN A FOREIGN TONGUE.

This is the Dutch Edition of "King Charl's his Case," printed in London in the same year, and in it Cook complains that King Charles did not study Scripture half so much as he did Ben Jonson or SHAKES

PEARE.

912. SHAKESPEARE. Williams (James Leon). The Home and Haunts of Shakespeare. With an Introduction by Horace Howard Furness. Splendidly illustrated by 15 plates in water color, 30 full page photogravures, and more than 150 other illustrations, after paintings by noted artists. Imperial 4to, full crimson morocco gilt, gilt edges.

STRATFORD EDITION.

New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1895

RARE SHAKESPEARIAN PLAY BILLS

913. SHAKESPEARIANA, etc. A Collection of Upwards of Seventy-four folio play bills issued by the Theatre Royal Covent Garden between Dec. 29th, 1806, and Dec. 23rd, 1836, embracing numerous Shakesperian and other Plays Illustrated with folding colored caricature and other rare original engravings and autograph letters inserted in a folio scrap book, bound in half red

morocco.

A fine collection formed by the late AUGUSTUS DALY and presented by him with autograph inscription to his brother Jos. F. DALY. Among the SHAKESPEARIAN BILLS may be noted:

C. Kemble's first appearance as Falstaff; as Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing; as Hamlet, Oct. 4, 1824; as Orlando in As You Like It, Dec. 10, 1824; as Leonatus Posthumous in Cymbeline, June 2, 1825, in Othello as Cassio, 1827; as Romeo, Oct. 3, 1828; Kean as King Lear, 1828; Shylock, 1830, with Fanny Kemble as Portia; as Faulconbridge in King John 1831 as Henry VIII in Shakespeare's Tragedy "for the first time these six years'' 1831, etc.

The prints include rare colored caricatures, portraits and autographs including endorsed check by Kemble, etc.

BERNARD SHAW FIRST EDITIONS

914. SHAW (G. BERNARD). A Remarkable Collection of FIRST EDITIONS of the Works of G. Bernard Shaw, including those edited by him, and a number of books on his Life and Works. 103 items, various sizes and bindings, as published.

Cashel Byron's Profession. London, 1886.

Various places, 1886-1917

Fabian Essays in Socialism. Edited. London, [1889].
Fabian Essays in Socialism.

London, 1889.

The Quintessence of Ibsenism. London, 1891.
The Legal Eight Hours Question. London, 1891.
The Impossibilities of Anarchism. London, 1893.
Widowers' Houses. London, 1893.

The Theatrical 'World' of 1894. Introduction. London, 1895.

On Going to Church. East Aurora, 1896. Presentation from Elbert Hubbard.

Forecasts of the Coming Century. Manchester, 1897.

The Perfect Wagnerite. London, 1898.

Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. 2 vols. London, 1898. Inserted is an interesting A. L. S. by Shaw, in regard to a portrait of himself. The Perfect Wagnerite. Chicago, 1899.

Love Among the Artists. Chicago, 1900.
Fabianism and the Empire. London, 1900.
Three Plays for Puritans. London, 1901.
Cashel Byron's Profession. London, 1901.
Man and Superman. Westminster, 1903.

The Common Sense of Municipal Trading. Westminster, 1904.
Mrs. Warren's Profession. London, 1902.

Fabianism and the Fiscal Question. London, 1904.

The Irrational Knot. London, 1905.

The Author's Apology. New York, 1905.

Candida.

A Mystery. London, 1905.

Captain Brassbound's Conversion. London, 1906.

Caesar and Cleopatra. London, 1906.

Dramatic Opinions and Essays. 2 vols. New York, 1906.

Dramatic Opinions and Essays. 2 vols. London, 1907.

John Bull's Other Island, etc.

London, 1907.

John Bull's Other Island, etc. London, 1908.

The Sanity of Art. New York, 1908.

Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. Preface. London, 1908.

The Admirable Bashville. London, 1909.

You Never Can Tell. London, 1909.

Statement of the Evidence in chief of George Bernard Shaw ... on Stage Plays. Privately printed, 1909. With presentation inscription by Shaw.

Press Cuttings. London, 1909.

The Critics of the White Prophet. London, [1909].

Fabian Essays in Socialism. Boston, 1909.

Banned Play. pp. [London, 1909].

Preface to Three Plays by Brieux. New York, 1910. One of 50 copies. Socialism and Superior Brains. London, 1910.

The Doctor's Dilemma, etc. London, 1911.

Three Plays by Brieux. Preface. London, 1911.

The Quintessence of Ibsenism. Now Completed. London, 1913.

Getting Married. London, 1913.

The Case for Equality. [London, 1913].

Androcles and the Lion. London, 1914.
Misalliance, etc. London, 1914.

An Unsocial Socialist. London, 1914.

Fanny's First Play. London, 1915.

Killing for Sport. Preface. London, 1915.

Androcles-Pygmalion, etc. London, 1916, and New York, 1916.
International Government. London, [1916].

Major Barbara. New York, 1916.

How to Settle the Irish Question. Dublin, [1917].

Besides the above First Editions, with their variations, there are 22 magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals containing first printings of Shaw material, 12 scarce items printed by The Fabian Society, with his contributions, and 10 volumes on Shaw and his Work, by Chesterton, Holbrook Jackson, Cyril Maude, Harold Owen, Renee M. Deason, Archi

bald Henderson, Herbert Skimpole, Joseph McCabe, P. P. Howe, and Augustin Hamon.

The set detailed above probably forms the most complete_collection of the First Editions of Bernard Shaw ever offered for sale. Bookplates have been removed from some of the volumes, but all are in fine condition.

915. SHAW (VERO). The Illustrated Book of the Dog. With an Appendix on Canine Medicine and Surgery. Illustrated with numerous fine colored plates and wood engraving. Imp. 8vo, cloth. London, n.d.

From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

916. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With an Introductory Essay by Robert Browning. 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, back richly gilt, in compartments, sides handsomely gilt tooled with borders of dots and fillets, and within, a handsome border of floral designs and pointille background, doublures and flys of green moire silk, gilt top, uncut, in slip case, by Riviere.

London: Edward Moxon, 1852

FINE COPY OF THE SUPPRESSED COLLECTION OF SHELLEY LETTERS, DISPUTED AS FORGERIES IN THE ATHENAEUM.

The publisher suppressed the book and called in every copy procurable within one month after publication. This celebrated literary forgery is believed to be the work of George Byron, natural son of Lord Byron and the Maid of Athens.

917. SHELLEY AND KEATS. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 8 vols.; the Works of John Keats, 4 vols. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. With numerous portraits and other illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, the plates being in two states, on plate paper and on Japan vellum, the frontispieces colored. Together, 12 vols., 8vo, full seal brown levant morocco, gold lines on sides, backs, and inside borders, gilt tops, uncut.

London and Boston: Virtue & Co., [1904]

Memorial Edition, limited to fifty numbered sets.

918. SHERBURNE (EDWARD). Medea: A Tragedie. Written in Latine by Lucius Annaevs Seneca. Englished by E. S., Esq. With Annotations; Seneca's Answer to Lvcilivs, his Qvære; Why Good Men suffer misfortune seeing there is a Divine Providence? Written Originally in Latine Prose, and Now Translated into English Verse, By E. S., Esq. In one volume. 8vo, full sprinkled calf, canary edges. (Slightly stained, one catchword cut into.) London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648

FIRST EDITIONS. Scarce. With the Lefferts bookplate.

919. [SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY)]. The Rivals. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. 8vo, full crimson morocco, gilt edges.

London: Printed for John Wilkie, 1775

The genuine First Issue of the FIRST EDITION, in rare condition, having the half-title and the extra leaf between "A2" and "Bi" containing "Errata" on one side and the "Dramatis Personae" on the other. This leaf was evidently an afterthought, caused by errors being discovered in the text during publication. It is almost always wanting. The Halsey copy.

It also has the catchword "Epi” at end of last page of play, followed by the leaf of "Epilogue, "which is generally lacking.

920. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). An Ode to Scandal; to which are added, Stanzas on Fire. 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Riviere.

FIRST EDITION. From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

921. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). or, "The Picture" varnished, with other Poems. levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Riviere.

London, 1819

Clio's Protest; 8vo, full crimson

London, 1819

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Fine copy. Scarce. From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

922. SLAVERY. Papers, Shewing the Present State of the Slave Trade. Presented to Parliament, April, 1815. 97 pp. Small folio, half blue calf, gilt top. London, [1815]

Embraces America, Sweden, France, Russia, Holland, etc.

923. SMITH (F. HOPKINSON). In Dickens' London. Illustrated with charcoal drawings by the author. ACCOMPANIED BY A PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAVURE PROOFS of the Illustrations. Royal 8vo, buckram, gilt top, uncut.

New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1914

Special edition, limited to 150 copies.

924. SMITH (CAPT. JOHN). A True Relation of Virginia, with introduction and notes by C. Deane: large facsimile map. Royal, 4to, half red levant extra, gilt top, uncut edges.

Large paper copy, only 35 printed.

Boston, 1866

925. SMITH (JOHN CHALONER). British Mezzotinto Portraits. Frontispieces. With the portfolio of 125 reproductions. 6 vols., royal 8vo, cloth (back strips worn), uncut.

London, 1878-1883

FIRST EDITION. The volumes contain many pencil notes by Mr. Halsey as well as inserted cuts and reproductions of portraits which he had collected from time to time and placed in the books. From the estate of F. R. Halsey.