SHAKESPEARE W.,. The Tempest. Reprinted from the folio of 1623 together with the text revised and rewritten by John Dryden and William D'Avenant, to which is added Caliban a continuation of "The Tempest".. The Rowfant Club,, Cleveland (Ohio), 1911.

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Description: pp. (40), 238, (6) , con num. ritratti. Frontespizio inciso all'acquaforte da W. F. Hopson e firmato a matita. Su Hopson e sul The Rowfant Club cfr. "Butler, The Golden Era of American Bookplate Design, pp. 41-43 e passim". Splendida legat. firmata in p. pelle rossa con nervi; titoli e taglio sup. dorati. Piatti esterni e interni con filetti d'oro, sguardie decorate, fogli con barbe su due lati, elegante custodia. Stato perfetto. Ediz. limitata di cento esemplari ; nostro esemplare n. 50. Testo in lingua inglese.

Seller: Studio bibliografico LE MUSE, MONTECCHIO EMILIA - RE, Italy

William Shakespeare; Eleanor Grant Vickery; Willis Vickery; Sidney Lee, Sir; William Fowler Hopson. The Tempest: A Comedy (Reprinted from the Folio of 1623). Cleveland, Ohio : Published by the Rowfant Club, 1911.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: [Private Press, Fine Binding] Limited Edition of only 100 copies. Bound in publisher's crushed red morocco. Gilt stamped and ruled. Gilt dentelle. Signed binding, by Rowfant bindery. Top edge gilt. Hardcover in marbled slip case. Fine binding and cover. Marbled end sheets. Clean, unmarked pages. Illustrated frontispiece, title page engraved by W.F. Hopson. xl, 236 pages,[1]. 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. Facsimile reproductions of the title pages from Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 and Dryden's edition of The tempest. Book plate of Louise Ireland on front paste-down. Caliban. "Light, Seeking Light, Doth Light of Light Beguile." - motto of the Rowfant Club.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

SHAKESPEARE, William. LEE, Sir Sidney. VICKERY, Willis,. The Tempest: A Comedy. Together with the text revised and rewritten by John Dryden and William D'Avenant. To Which is Added Caliban, a Continuation of "The Tempest.". The Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911.

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Description: Preceded by an Introduction by Sir Sidney Lee. Edited by Willis Vickery. xl, 236 [1] pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's full red gilt-ruled morocco, t.e.g., in slipcase. First edition thus; No. 9 of 100 copies. Rubbed at just one corner; otherwise fine in a slipcase with light rubbing at edges. The editor's copy, with his attractive gilt leather book label on pastedown and later Christmas gift inscription on blank leaf. His engraved card laid in.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

SHAKESPEARE, William.. The Tempest.. Cleveland, Ohio: The Rowfant Club, 1911, 1911.

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Description: First Rowfant edition, number 91 of 100. This edition contains a reprint of The Tempest from the 1623 folio edition, John Dryden and William Davenant's 1670 adaptation of the play, and Caliban (1896), a continuation of The Tempest, translated from the French of Ernest Renan by Eleanor Grant Vickery. The Rowfant Club, a private bibliophile club in Ohio founded in 1892, takes its motto from another Shakespeare play, Love's Labour's Lost: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile". Octavo. Original red morocco by the Rowfant bindery, spine lettered in gilt, gilt compartments and raised bands on spine, covers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binder's ticket on front pastedown. Housed in the original marbled slipcase, as issued. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page, 6 monochrome plates, 4 with tissue-guards. Spine a touch darkened else very bright, a little foxing to fore and lower edges, offsetting to contents. A fine copy of a handsomely bound edition, clean and fresh, in rubbed but bright slipcase.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest: A Comedy (Reprinted from the Folio of 1623). Rowfant, Cleveland, 1911.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Together with the Text Revised and Rewritten by John Dryden and William D'Avenant. To which is added Caliban; A Continuation of "The Tempest". Frontis., extra illustrated title page, additional fine engraved plates. 236pp., 8vo, elegantly bound by Rowfant in full redcrushed morocco with gilt panels and borders. Wide margins and uncut edges, t.e.g., marbled board slipcase. Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1911. Fine. Limited to only 100 numbered copies.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.