Tales from Shakespeare Illustrated by George Soper

Shakespeare, William; Lamb, Charles and Mary (Adaptation)

Verlag: Headley Brothers, Bishopsgate St., London, 1909

Beschreibung

No date; circa 1909. Large 7" x 8 1/2" design. Green full cloth boards, gilt embossed cover and spine titles, design, moderate shelf wear, rub. Beautifully designed cover features the theatrical happy and mad faces with mask droppping away and fairy nymph emanating below gilt relief banner with stylized titles. Classic gilt spine titles with Headley Bros. at heel. Pages very good, clean; no writing. Prize sllip tipped-in at front endpaper: "St. Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide, Prize Awarded to Mary Reynolds, For Divinity presented by Canon Wise, Christmas 1915, Sister Eunice." Tan monochromatic pictorial endpapers at front and back feature parade of characters following blind-folded winged cherub with maidens laying petals ahead of their path. Frontispiece plate with tissue guard of Titiana. Beige title page illustrated in monochromatic red. Features a dozen very unique and richly colored illustrated plates by George Soper, each with printed tissue guard; couple tissues w/crease. Also, three painterly full-page designs in sepia, and nine full-page black & white designs also by Soper. Additionally, entertaining b&w headers grace at the start each tale. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Very good beautiful collection in this charmingly illustrated volume. Contents charmingly adapted by Mary and Charles Lamb: "Preface; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; King Lear; Othello; The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Winter's Tale; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; The Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; 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; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; and, Pericles, Prince of Tyre." Stated at final page: Headley Brothers, Printers, London: and Ashford, Kent. 323 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021266

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Tales from Shakespeare Illustrated by George...

Verlag: Headley Brothers, Bishopsgate St., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1909

Einband: Hard Cover

Illustrator: Soper, George

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition Thus.