Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 368

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Kinney, Arthur F. The Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare. Etched frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare with animals, 52 wood engravings, and an additional suite of Signed and numbered prints by Alan James Robinson. Folio, tan morocco stamped in black, suite laid into cloth chemise; prospectus laid in; cloth clamshell box. (Easthampton, 1990)

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The most ambitious work of the press. Number 36 of 100 deluxe copies Signed by Robinson with a suite of signed and numbered plates. The text addresses the natural history, folklore, and mythology of the birds and beasts in Shakespeare's work.