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The Tragedie of Macbeth. by William Shakespeare

Creator: William Shakespeare
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
RICKETTS, CHARLES (ILLUSTRATOR); SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The Tragedie of Macbeth.
Introduction by Harley Granville-Barker, edited by Albert Rutherston.
Stock Code 99352
London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1923
£950
The illustrations by Charles Ricketts are more fully worked and complex than the style normally associated with his work, but even more compelling. The superior issue of an attractive production.

Limited edition number 85 of 106 specially-bound copies on hand-made paper and signed by the artist, Granville-Barker and Rutherston, from an total edition of 606; 4to; colour plates by Charles Ricketts, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford-upon-Avon; publisher's brown morocco with elaborate strapwork panels in gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a little rubbed at extremities, joints starting but sound, small dent to rear board, otherwise very good-plus; lix, [blank], 84, [1]pp.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	18th Century
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	99352
Incollect Reference #:	630707

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