August 2020 Catalogue

A u g u s t 2 0 2 0 45 Shakespeare’s Tempest , Illustrated And Signed By Arthur Rackham, In Scarce Original Dust Jacket—A Beautiful Copy 43. (RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. London and New York, 1926. Quarto, original half vellum, dust jacket. $4800. Click for more info Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of only 520 copies, with 21 full-page mounted color illustrations and 25 in-text line cuts, signed by Rackham, uncut and unopened, in scarce original dust jacket. This signed limited first edition contains an extra color plate (the frontispiece, “Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell”)—not issued in the trade edition. Book very nearly fine, with only minor toning to extremities. Scarce dust jacket near-fine, with only slightest soiling and light wear and toning to extremities. A beautiful copy, unopened and in original dust jacket.