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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare. by William SHAKESPEARE

Creator: William Shakespeare
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
SHAKESPEARE, William.

The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare.
Edited by Gwyn Jones.

Stock Code 112743
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1960

Current price$7,207.00
A superb copy of the sonnets and narrative poems of England's most famous dramatist, finely bound in red morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere with an all-over design of meandering roses onlaid in pink, green and red.

Limited edition, number 247 of 470 copies; folio (32.5 x 20 cm); bookplate to front free endpaper verso; red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, panels elaborately tooled in gilt with an all-over design of meandering roses onlaid in pink, green and red, gilt spine in 6 compartments, top-edge gilt, others uncut, dentelles tooled in kind, very light offsetting to margins of endpapers, a fine copy enclosed in red cloth solander box, contrasting green morocco title-piece to spine; 245, [1]pp.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1950-1979
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern
Dealer Reference #:	112743
Incollect Reference #:	731477

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