A WITTY AND PLEASANT COMEDY CALLED THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
- London: Hacon and Ricketts, 1901.
- 8vo.
- original blind-tooled green cloth.
- (iv), vxiii, (xv), xcii, (xcvi) pages.
- ISBN: none
Price: $175.00 save 20% $140.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 137993
First Vale Press edition, first impression. From the Vale Press edition of Shakespeare's Plays. (Watry, B44/18). Private bookplate of J.G.F. Lund on the front pastedown. Very small amounts of rubbing to the extremities, very small bumps to corners. There is a moderate amount of foxing to the bottom edge of the textblock throughout, else a fine copy of this very scarce book.
The decorations were designed by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), a publisher, designer, and wood engraver who readily embraced the printing revival which propagated the ideals of the arts-and-crafts movement: "The novelty of a book, made during the recent revival, lies in the fact that it shows design in each portion of it, from type to paper, and from 'build' to decoration. Therein lies the difference between a book so understood and any other modern book printed before 1891.". Franklin, p. 81; Ransom, p. 437.