Sunday, April 28, 2013

1899 Tales From Shakespeare Illustrated by Arthur Rackham


1899 FIRST EDITION

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

London: J. M. Dent & Company, 1899.

• measures about 6'' x 4''
• beautiful blue cloth fine binding
• detailed embossed gold gilt stamping
• blind-stamped device to front
• textblock top edge gilt, other edges uncut
• pictorial front pastedown
• color frontispiece (with tissue-guard) and color vignette title page by Rackham
• 11 other full-page b&w plates by Rackham
• original bound-in silk page-marker
• 362 pages




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