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Lot 76
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[LEAF BOOK]. -- [SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)]. Original Leaves from the First Four Folios of the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1623, 1632, 1663, 1685. With an Introduction by Edwin Eliott Willoughby. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1935.
Folio. With 4 original leaves from the Shakespeare Folios tipped in. Original red morocco-backed decorative boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in second, uncut (light rubbing near joints). Provenance: Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr.; his sale, Fine California Press Books, PBA, 8 May 2008, lot 307.
LIMITED EDITION, number 37 of 65 copies on Whatman paper, from a total edition of 73, CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM EACH OF THE FOLIOS, which comprise of: First Folio: The Winters Tale, pp.293-294; Second Folio: The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, pp.59-60 (some marginalia in a contemporary hand); Third Folio: The Tragedy of Macbeth, pp.727-728; Fourth Folio: The Tragedy of Hamlet, pp.81-82. Joel Silver, "Catalog of the Exhibition," in: Disbound and Dispersed, item 13 ("David Magee...noted that this book 'seldom occurs for sale'"); Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 67.