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Lot 199

Sale 2038 - The Collected Home
Lots Open
Jul 2, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 17, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$600 - 800
Price Realized
$826
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[BINDINGS - THE EASTON PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Complete Works. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992-1993. 


35 (of 39) volumes (lacking Hamlet, King Lear, The Poems of William Shakespeare Volume l, and Timon of Athens.), 4to. Frontispieces and numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Richard Floethe, Sylvain Sauvage and others (many in color). Original gilt-decorated maroon leather, spines in 3 compartments with 2 raised bands, black leather lettering-pieces gilt in one, gilt-decorated in all, edges gilt, watered silk endpapers, silk bookmarks (some light wear to extremities and spine labels, spines of a few lightly sunned or darkened, a few with slight staining). Provenance: Jason Bennett (signature to Easton Press bookplate mounted to half-title of The Winter's Tale).

With 11 works in duplicate and 3 works in triplicate. Together, 52 volumes, with 7 in shrinkwrap, many with blank Easton Press bookplates laid in with 3 mounted. Complete list available upon request.



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