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Lot 99
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Shakespeare, William The Tempest
London: William Heinemann Ltd./New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, (1926). First and limited edition, #395/520 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (xiv), (186) pp. (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 20 color plates, all mounted, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's quarter vellum over white paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, lightly foxed; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; in dust-jacket, worn with a 2 x 6 1/2 in. section missing in top edge; Latimore & Haskell, pp. 61-62; Riall p. 161