WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN [SIGNED - LIMITED - SLIPCASED]
by MABIE, Hamilton Wright [Shakespeare]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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CARLSBAD , California, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Limited and numbered large paper edition in the scarce linen cloth dust jacket titled in gilt and publisher's slipcase with printed paper spine label. This is number 83 of 150 copies bound in undressed white kid leather, gilt top, uncut. One hundred illustrations including nine full-page in photogravure. Ex-libris bookplate of John Needels Chester (1864-1955) and booksellers catalog description tipped to bottom of the front pastedown. The John Needels Chester Rare Book & Manuscript Library is housed at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Half-title page has a tipped printed Shakespeare quote and tipped example of the author's bookplate. Signed by Mabie on the colophon followed by a tipped in portrait of the author drawn by George T. Tobin. The portrait appears cropped and may or may not be original to the book? Hinges just slightly starting, still firmly bound, with clean and unmarked text. See photos.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43048
- Title
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN [SIGNED - LIMITED - SLIPCASED]
- Author
- MABIE, Hamilton Wright [Shakespeare]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1900
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CARLSBAD , California
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- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tipped In
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