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	3.	The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare   Shakespeare, William New York Limited Editions Club Limited Edition Hard Copy Very Good No Jacket as Issued Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Limited Editions Club, New York, 1939-1940. 37 volumes. Limited edition of 1,950 copies; this is copy number 1,589. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the press of A. Colish, New York. The text of the First Folio is edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon. Decorative boards. Set is in Very Good condition: spines and some boards faded; edge wear; corner wear; some corners worn through; light rubbing on boards; prior owner's bookplate on front paste down; in a few volumes a few uncut pages were not cleanly cut by prior owner; binding is tight, and pages are clean and bright. Each volume has one play and each is illustrated by a different artist as follows: PUBLISHED IN 1939: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: illus. from water-colors by Arthur Rackham (color illus.); ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA: illus. w/ hand-colored wood-engravings by Enric-C. Ricart (color illus.); AS YOU LIKE IT: illus. from water-colors by Sylvain Sauvage (color illus.); CORIOLANUS: illus. from paintings by C. Pal Molnar (color illus.); CYMBELINE: illus. w/ lithographs by Yngve Berg (b/w illus.); HAMLET, illus. from drawings by Edy Legrand (b/w illus.); HENRY THE EIGHTH: illus. w/ wood engravings by Eric Gill (b/w illus.); HENRY THE FOURTH, PART I: illus. w/ lithographs in color by Barnett Freedman (color illus.); HENRY THE FOURTH PART II: illus. w/ water-colors by Edward Bawden (color illus.); JULIUS CAESAR: illus. w/ wood-engravings by Frans Masereel (b/w illus.); KING LEAR: illus. from drawings by Boardman Robinson (b/w illus.); LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: illus. from drawings by Mariette Lydis (b/w illus.); MACBETH: illus. from drawings in color by Gordon Craig. Laid in is "A Shakespeare Commentary" to Richard the Second, 4 pages, for the subscribers to the Limited Editions Club's Shakespeare. MEASURE FOR MEASURE: illus. w/ lithographs in color by Hugo Steiner-Prag (color illus.); MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: illus. from drawings by Fritz Kredel (b/w illus.); OTHELLO: illus. w/ wood engravings by Robert Gibbings (b/w illus.); THE COMEDY OF ERRORS: illus. from wood-engravings in water-color by John Austen (color illus.); THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: illus. from water-colors by Rene Ben Sussan (color illus.); THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR: illus. from drawings by Gordon Ross. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: illus. from water-colors by Pierre Brissaud (color illus.); TITUS ANDRONICUS: illus. from water-colors by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin (color illus.); TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: illus. w/ wood engravings by Demetrius Galanis (duotone illus.); TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL: illus. from water-colors by Francesco Carnevalli (color illus.); PUBLISHED IN 1940: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL: illus. from drawings by Richard Floethe (color illus.); HENRY THE FIFTH: illus. from drawings by Vera Willoughby (b/w illus.); HENRY THE SIXTH PART I: illus. w/ lithographs by Graham Sutherland; HENRY THE SIXTH PART II: illus. w/ lithographs by Carlotta Petrina (b/w illus.); HENRY THE SIXTH, PART III: 1940,illus. from drawings by Jean Charlot (tri-color illus.); KING JOHN: illus. w/ drawings by Valenti Angelo (color illus.); PERICLES: illus. w/ wood-engravings by Stanislas Ostoja-Chrostowski (b/w illus.); RICHARD THE SECOND: illus. w/ wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (b/w illus.) Laid in is "A Shakespeare Commentary" to Richard the Second, 4 pages, for the subscribers to the Limited Editions Club's Shakespeare; RICHARD THE THIRD: illus. w/ lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg (b/w illus.); ROMEO AND JULIET: illus. from drawings by Ervine Metzl (color illus.); THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: illus. from drawings by W. A. Dwiggins (monochrome illus.); THE TEMPEST: illus. from water-colors by Edward Wilson (color illus.); THE WINTER'S TALE: illus. w/ hand-colored drawings by Albert Rutherston (color illus.); TIMON OF ATHENS: illus. w/ wood-engravings by George Buday (b/w illus.). Price: 875.00 USD
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