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Price: US$186.52 + 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$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.