Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. With twelve illustrations by F. Dicksee, A.R.A. With an introduction by Edward Dowden, LL.D.. Cassell & Company, London, 1884.

Price: US$193.24 + shipping

Description: FIRST DICKSEE EDITION, folio, pp. xxvi, 53, [1] + photogravure frontispiece. Eleven photogravure plates within pagination. Title page and several other pages printed in red and black. Original ochre bevelled boards, boards blocked in dark brown, red, and green, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Some dustsoiling to margins. Binding darkened, marked and rubbed. A large folio edition of Shakespeare?s famous tragedy illustrated by English painter Frank Dicksee (1853-1928), with his images transposed to the page by Goupil & Cie.

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