Tempest
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
- SIGNED
- London: William Heinemann, 1926
London: William Heinemann, 1926. RACKHAM, Arthur. . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1926.
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white.
Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original tan dust jacket printed in red, endpapers a bit foxed, (jacket a little browned), original glassine, very chipped. A fine copy.
"There is an extra coloured plate in this edition that is not in the trade edition, this is the frontispiece titled 'Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:'" (Riall).
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 61-62. Riall, p. 161.
HBS 67589.
$3,000.
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white.
Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original tan dust jacket printed in red, endpapers a bit foxed, (jacket a little browned), original glassine, very chipped. A fine copy.
"There is an extra coloured plate in this edition that is not in the trade edition, this is the frontispiece titled 'Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:'" (Riall).
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 61-62. Riall, p. 161.
HBS 67589.
$3,000.
Details
Title
Tempest
Author
SHAKESPEARE, William
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
William Heinemann: London
Date
1926