Author: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616). GRANVILLE-BARKER, HARLEY (1877-1946). NASH, PAUL [ILLUSTRATOR]. NEWDIGATE, BERNARD HENRY (1869-1944) [PRINTER]. WALKER, EMERY (1851-1933). ERNEST BENN LTD. [PUBLISHER]. SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS [PRINTER]
Title: Shakespeare's The Tragedie of King Lear : printed from the folio of 1623
Description: London 1927. Limited Facsimile Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description; 108 p. [5] leaves of plates : ill. (part col.) ; 33 cm. Notes; Uncommon in the dust-wrapper. 'The introductions are by Mr. Harley Granville-Barker. The volumes have been printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Stratford-upon-Avon. under the direction of Mr B. H. Newdigate. and the coloured illustrations have been carried out in facsimile collotype by Messrs Whittingham & Griggs. The line blocks are by Mr Emery Walker. The edition is under the art-editorship of Mr. Albert Rutherston. This volume is illustrated by Mr. Albert Rutherston.' -- colophon. 'There are two editions. The one. strictly limited to one hundred signed copies for sale and six copies not for sale. numbered repectively 1 to 100 and I to VI. is printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper and bound either in vellum or in oasis morocco by Zaehnsdorf. The other edition. printed on pure rag paper. is strictly limited to four hundred and fifty copies for sale and fifty copies not for sale. numbered respectively 101 to 550 and VII to LVI. of which this is number 335.' -- colophon. Title page in red and black. With half-title page. Subjects; Shakespeare. William (1564-1616) — Bibliography — Folios. 1623. English drama — Early modern and Elizabethan. (1500- 1600). King Lear. Tragedy. Genres; Bibliography. Drama. Illustrated.Weight in Kg appr.:

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