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Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare. by William Shakespeare

Creator: William Shakespeare
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
CRANE, WALTER (ILLUSTRATOR); SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Engraved & Printed by Duncan C. Dallas.
Stock Code 104771
London, J.M. Dent, 1894
£300
A handsome edition of these large format illustrations by Walter Crane.

Number 95 of 650 copies signed by the artist and the engraver; portfolio (360 x 275 mm); title printed in red & black, 8 mounted rice paper plates window-mounted and with captioned tissue guards, foxing to two plates, some creasing to the plate margins due to shrinkage, but rendered invisible by the window mounts; loose as issued in publisher's terracotta & green cloth decorated in gilt, light contemporary gift inscription to inside front cover, overall a very good example.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	18th Century
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	104771
Incollect Reference #:	630709

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