[SHAKESPEARE WITH ORIGINAL WOODBURYTYPE PRINTS]

Name: [SHAKESPEARE WITH ORIGINAL WOODBURYTYPE PRINTS]
Author: Cowden Clarke, Charles & Mary (eds}..The Works Of William Shakespeare.

Book Description

4to, lxi,[3],1002,[2]p., text within single rule frame, titlepage printed in red & black, portrait frontispiece & 21 tipped-in PERMANENT WOODBURYTYPE PHOTOMECHANICAL PRINTS. Original full crushed blue morocco binding (some rubbing to corners), banded spine (endcaps rubbed), boards alike with decorative gilt frame with lacework corner ornaments. Attractive “Leicester Square Edition” edition of the works of Shakespeare with tipped in Woodburytype prints of paintings representing scenes from the various Shakespeare plays and a title photograph of the Giovanni Fontana sculpted statue of Shakespeare in Leicester Square in keeping with the edition. A very good copy (light titlepage offsetting of frontis and occ. light spotting to prelims & titles).

Author Cowden Clarke, Charles & Mary (eds}..The Works Of William Shakespeare.

Date 1883.

Publisher London: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square,

Price: £280.00

Offered by Alastor Rare Books

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