Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 29 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. Limited to 500 copies bound in publisher's vellum with gilt design and lettering and signed by the artist Edmund Dulac this being copy number 83. Frontispiece and an additional 39 tipped in color plates. Gilt top foredge. Vellum boards are bowed. Lacking the ribbon. Scattered foxing to the text, not the plates. Some fading to the spine. Bit of discoloration to the edges of the front cover.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine and tight copy bound in full vellum. Limited Edition of 500 copies of which this is no. 96, Signed by Edmund Dulac. Forty tipped in color plates in perfect condition. Ribbon is still attached. A very nice copy and much nicer than usual. (See Pict's).
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 500 numbered copies signed by Dulac. xxiv, 143 (1) pp. + 40 tipped-in color plates. Hardcover, bound in full vellum. The binding spotted, lacking ties, boards slightly splayed as usual; the text with light foxing at the extremities, generally unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare 1908 antiquarian copy of The Tempest, covered in full ivory vellum. From a limited edition of five hundred copies, numbered and signed by the artist Edmund Dulac, of which this is No. 231. Very large folio 11.5" x 8.5" x 2"; 144pp. Both rare and scarce. Ivory full-vellum-covered hardboards; vellum being specially processed from calfskin and proven to be able to last for 1,000 years. Ornate gilt lettering and artistic design on front and spine. Beautiful and ornate previous owner bookplate inside front board. Boards are lightly warped, slightly spotted and darkened in some areas. (see photos) Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked, with heavy-weight paper stock, very heavily deckled edges. Lightly tanning throughout but no age speckling. Features 40 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, mounted on dark green art paper and covered with letter press captioned paper guards. This 114-year-old book is a very rare and exceptional presentation of Shakespeare's Tempest; a gorgeous collectible. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied.
Seller: Fine Old Books Coastside, Montara, CA, U.S.A.