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Tempest: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
by SHAKESPEARE, William
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1926. RACKHAM, Arthur. . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1926.
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white.
Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original tan dust jacket printed in red, endpapers a bit foxed, (jacket a little browned), original glassine, very chipped. A fine copy.
"There is an extra coloured plate in this edition that is not in the trade edition, this is the frontispiece titled ‘Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:‘" (Riall).
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 61-62. Riall, p. 161.
HBS 67589.
$3,000.
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white.
Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original tan dust jacket printed in red, endpapers a bit foxed, (jacket a little browned), original glassine, very chipped. A fine copy.
"There is an extra coloured plate in this edition that is not in the trade edition, this is the frontispiece titled ‘Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:‘" (Riall).
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 61-62. Riall, p. 161.
HBS 67589.
$3,000.
Synopsis
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s last solo-written plays. This tragedy tells the story of an exiled ruler who uses magic to restore his daughter to power and argues that the powerful must show mercy. First performed in 1611, The Tempest has been put to varied interpretations, from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands. O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in ’t! (V.i.)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67589
- Title
- Tempest
- Author
- SHAKESPEARE, William
- Illustrator
- RACKHAM, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books|Children|Signed Limited Edition|Signed
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