Reimagining Shakespeare’s Reading Room

The Alta Collection presents thirty-one books that directly influenced William Shakespeare's plays and might well have been found in his reading room.
These volumes are exceedingly scarce, some survive only in two or three known copies.
Several of the books offered here are missing one or more pages and are priced accordingly.
This is a rare opportunity to acquire texts that literally and figuratively made literary history.
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The Alta Collection




The Spanish Mandeville of Miracles (1600)
Sale Price:$3,400.00 Original Price:$4,000.00
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Hall’s Troubleous Season of King Henry VI (1550)
Sale Price:$1,275.00 Original Price:$1,500.00
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Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's Eastward Ho! (1605)
Sale Price:$12,750.00 Original Price:$15,000.00
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The Second Part of the Mirror for Magistrates (1578)
Sale Price:$6,800.00 Original Price:$8,000.00
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Knolles's General History of the Turks (1610)
Sale Price:$3,825.00 Original Price:$4,500.00
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Elyot's The Boke Named the Governour (1557)
Sale Price:$5,525.00 Original Price:$6,500.00
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Matthew of Paris's Angli Historia Major (1589)
Sale Price:$4,250.00 Original Price:$5,000.00
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A Dictionary of the French and English Tongues (1611)
Sale Price:$1,445.00 Original Price:$1,700.00
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Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques (1568)
Sale Price:$6,375.00 Original Price:$7,500.00
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Sir Thomas More's History of Richard III (1565)
Sale Price:$3,825.00 Original Price:$4,500.00
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