[Private Press] Shakespeare, William | edited by Thomas Sturge Moore; decorations by Charles Ricketts

[Vale Press Shakespeare] THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

London: Hacon & Ricketts at the Vale Press and printed under Ricketts's supervision at the Ballantyne Press, 1901. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Item #6356

Octavo. lxxxii, [1] pp. Limited edition, one of 310 copies. Bound as issued in green cloth and stamped in blind with a design by Ricketts; gilt title on the spine; printed on handmade paper with a "mermaid" watermark by Messrs. Arnold. A very nice copy with limited wear to the binding; the spine is just a touch darkened; offsetting to the endpapers and adjacent blanks; scattered foxing as usual along the bottom edge of some leaves with some of the preliminary blanks and the title pages having foxing to the entire leaf.; handsome armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Despite the foxing, this is a nice copy of this play from one of the most elegant and pleasing sets of Shakespeare's Plays with beautiful Art Nouveau influenced cover design and borders by Charles Ricketts. Watry B44/12.

Price: $150.00