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Cambridge University Press, 1959, hardcover. The Cambridge Pocket Shakespeare (the *New* text with corrections and glossary) edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (flap clipped and price overlabelled).

Kuwait: Ministry of Information, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 255 pp. In Arabic.

Cambridge University Press, 1969-03-31. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2009-07-20. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: Heinemann, 1926. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. pictorial boards 185pp., col. frontis., col. pls., text illusts., 20 fine colour plates plus some nice black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent. Grey-black boards with gilt decoration to upper board & spine. Nice ownerÕs bookplate on front paste-down, very light spots to prelims & a small neat ownership inscription on the front end paper o/w a nice bright, tight, square copy of the first trade edition. Uncommon. PHOTO available

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1926. First trade edition. Original black cloth with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge stained yellow. A Near Fine book with a bit of foxing to the fore-edge of the closed text block and to the preliminaries. In a VG+ jacket with amateur tape repairs to the verse of the jacket, some chipping to spine ends and along top of panels, and a bit of staining to the front panel. Twenty mounted color plates (including frontispiece) and twenty-five drawings in black and white. The Tempest is among Gettings' survey of Rackham's Best Book Illustrations. Here, Rackham brings to life the otherworldly kingdom of Sycorax and Caliban, usurped and governed by the displaced duke Prospero and his empathic daughter Miranda. Among Shakespeare's most complex late plays, here vividly illustrated. Latimore and Haskell 61-62. Riall 161. Hudson 171. Gettings 151, 153 and 180.

THE TEMPEST, Heinemann, (1926), first edition thus with these illustrations, a near fine copy in the publishers original pictorial binding. Profusely illustrated with 20 full color, full page plates and many black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham. 

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Book. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Trade Edition.. 185 pages, 4to. Missing DJ. First Trade Edition, published after the signed Limited Edition. No publishing date printed, c.1926. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 20 tippin-in mounted color plates (including frontispiece) and 25 drawings in black-and-white. Bound in original black cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine and front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and cover boards, a couple small tears and light fraying at top and bottom spine edges, some scratches and white discoloration on cover boards, very light water stained along top page edge. Otherwise, volume is tightly bound, no marks. Illustrations are in excellent condition. Volume is in Very Good condition..

London: William Heinemann, 1926. 1/4 Vellum. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. The 1926 signed/limited. 520 copies issued by William Heinemann and signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham (the first 260 intended for the British audience, the second 260 copies intended for The States). THIS, COPY #41, IS SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM at the limitation. A solid copy to boot. Tight and VG in its vellum-backed cream boards, with bright gilt-insignia and titling along the front panel and spine. Light staining at the foot of the spine, which bleeds just a bit onto the lower-edges of the first dozen or so pages. Thick quarto, top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges. A number of pages uncut, all of Rackham's 21 tipped-in, full-page plates in pristine condition.

London: William Heinemann Ltd,, [1926]. An attractive copy with the increasingly uncommon dust jacket First trade edition, first impression. A review of this edition, published in The Bystander on 8 December 1926, noted that it was "most exquisitely illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and some of the colour plates were the loveliest things of their kind that I have seen". Fred Gettings in his study of Rackham stated that "three plates, 'Come unto these yellow sands'; 'The isle is full of noises', and the fine 'Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears', reach near perfection, and in so doing point a new quality in Rackham's work" (Gettings, p. 150). Small quarto. Original black cloth, lettering and decorations to spine and front cover in gilt, top edge yellow. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on white paper, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Minor rubbing to board edges, gilt… Read More

London & New York: William Heinemann Ltd. & Doubleday, Page & Co., [1926]. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents are bright and fresh. The vellum spine is slightly darkened with a small stain at the top; the boards are soiled with a few small stains on the rear. Overall Very Good. Arthur Rackham. Quarto (9-1/4" x 12-3/4") bound in the original vellum-backed gilt-decorated white boards. Illustrated with 21 color plates, including 1 not in the trade edition, and several black and white devices, printed on hand-made paper. Copy #227 of 260 (of a total of 520) of the English issue SIGNED by the illustrator on the limitation page.

London: William Heinemann, 1926. Near fine.. Signed limited first Rackham edition, one of 520 copies signed by Rackham, with an extra color plate not in the trade edition. 11.25'' x 9''. Original quarter vellum, white gilt pictorial boards. Lacking scarce dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Illustrated by Rackham with 21 magnificent tipped-in color plates plus pictorial title page and several black-and-white devices. Printed on handmade paper. xiv, 185, [1] pages. Slightest of edge rubbing and spine soil.

London: William Heinemann Ltd.,, [1926]. The isle is full of noises First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 266 of 520 copies, signed by Rackham. The limited issue includes an additional plate ("Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell") not present in the trade edition. A review published in The Bystander on 8 December 1926 noted that the book was "most exquisitely illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and some of the colour plates were the loveliest things of their kind that I have seen". "Three plates, 'Come unto these yellow sands'; 'The isle is full of noises', and the fine 'Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears', reach near perfection, and in so doing point a new quality in Rackham's work..." (Gettings, p. 150). Quarto (285 x 228 mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, front cover lettered and with vignette in gilt, oak leaf design turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With 2 colour frontispieces, 19… Read More

London: William Heinemann / New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.,, [1926]. We are such stuff as dreams are made on First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 278 of 520 copies signed by the illustrator. The limited issue includes an additional plate, "Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell", not present in the trade edition. This handsomely bound copy pairs the enchanting illustrations of Arthur Rackham with one of the most magical of Shakespeare's plays. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial title block on front cover in gilt, turn-ins with twin gilt rules, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 tipped-in colour plates. A fine copy.