Rackham Arthur (1867 1939) William Shakespeares The Tempest

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Sale 2683 - Lot 318

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Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939)
William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

New York: Doubleday: Page & Company, [1926].

First edition illustrated by Rackham, limited issue, quarto; number 337 of 520 copies printed, one of 260 copies sold in America; signed by Rackham in black ink on the limitation page; illustrated with 21 mounted color plates and numerous text illustrations; bound in the original gilt-decorated quarter vellum, top edge gilt with the others uncut; with the scarce publisher's pictorial dust jacket, printed in red (some soiling to jacket, spine toned, small losses to spine ends; board edges lightly rubbed, area of minor toning to endpapers); 11 1/2 x 9 in.

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