Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4pp folio size prospectus for limited edition Collector's Edition printed by Stellar Press, Hatfield. Specification details and Order Form included. Printed on cream paper with black lettering and red decoration. Toning to edges with tiny loss to lower front corner and some shelf wear, especially on rear fore edge. Laid in are two very good condition sample pages for this Royal Shakespeare Company's Edition and one 4pp reduced size sample page pamphlet. Also a copy of the publisher's News Release announcing the launch of the Collector's Edition with a b/w photograph of Dame Peggy Ashcroft (who wrote an Introduction to the book). All now protected in clear archival envelope.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This copy signed by Dame Peggy Ashcroft and no. 152 of a limited edition of 260 copies. Red cloth boards with gilt titles in red slipcase (some fading and shelf wear to slipcase). Printed at The Stellar Press on handmade paper. Signed by calligrapher Frederick Marns on colophon. '. first published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe, in London, and the text of that Quarto edition represents the closest the reader can hope to come to Shakespeare's original manuscript. Our present edition is entirely faithful to the text as printed by Thorpe .' - Introduction. 154 p. ; 31 cm. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
Seller: Springhead Books, Rochester, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book has been printed in two-colours by lithography at The Stellar Press, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, on hand-made rag paper Velin Cuve, by BFK Rives, Arjomari-Prioux, France. Calligraphy by Taf Maines. This edition is limited to 260 copies of which is this is number 173. Signed by Peggy Ashcroft. Red cloth boards. Gold frontispiece. Silver title to spine. A really lovely copy. HEAVY - UK & OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING.
Seller: Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Limited edition, copy number 192 of a limited 260, signed by Dame Peggy Ashcroft and the calligrapher. Red cloth with gilt stamping, lacking the slip case. Near Fine, with light fading to cloth at spine, several indents to rear cover, light shelf wear. A lovely edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, printed in calligraphy. "Francis Meres, a contemporary of Shakespeare, tells us that when first written the Sonnets were circulated "among his private friends," and it seems most appropriate that they should be offered once again in a hand-written form." Signed by Peggy Ashcroft and the calligrapher.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.