Monday, April 8, 2013
1899 Stories from Shakespeare by M. Surtees Townesend - Art Nouveau Moire Cloth Binding
1899
STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY M. SURTEES TOWNESEND
*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ ILLUSTRATED ~ CLASSIC ***
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1899.
Morrison and Gibb Limited, printers, Edinburgh
measures about 8" x 5.75"
original publisher's decorative Art Nouveau fine binding
green silk moire cloth and grained brown cloth with embossed gold gilt and color stamping
textblock all edges gilt
patterned endpapers
frontispiece with tissue guard
three full-page color plates including frontispiece
further illustrated with black and white plates and vignettes
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