Tales from Shakespeare
03923London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1909. One of 750 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. LAMB Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1909.<br/><br/>Limited to 750 numbered copies this copy being No. 370 signed by the artist. <br/><br/>Large quarto 11 1/4 x 8 5/16 inches; 286 x 211 mm. 2 limitation leaf xii 304 pp. Thirteen mounted color plates including frontispiece with tissue guard and the additional plate not present in the trade edition. Two full-page illustrations in black and white twenty chapter headings and fourteen tail-pieces. <br/><br/>Publisher's cream buckram decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Original rose-colored silk ties. Top edge gilt others uncut. Vellum-style gold pictorial endpapers. Spine darkened a few small marks on covers still an excellent copy. Housed in a fleece-lined dark blue cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>Tipped-in before the half-title is a printed note regarding the additional plate "Puck" which only appears in this signed limited edition.<br/><br/>The plays illustrated in this fine volume are: The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Winter's Tale; Much Ado about Nothing; As You Like It; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; King Lear; Macbeth; All's Well that Ends Well; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors; Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; or What you Will; Timon of Athens; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet Prince of Denmark; Othello; and Pericles Prince of Tyre.<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell pp. 33-34. Riall p. 90. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909 unknown books
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