One of 25 lettered copies, with an additional 3750 numbered copies. Part of the Folio Society’s ‘Letterpress Shakespeare’ series. 2 vols. Folio, 35 x 25cm, 82pp + 8vo., 22 x 14.5cm, 275pp. Original publisher’s half green Nigerian goatskin over Ann Muir marbled paper boards, companion volume in original publisher’s green cloth, all contained within original green cloth drop-back box. Set in Monotype Baskerville with Caslon Display type. London, printed by Hand and Eye Letterpress for the Folio Society, and the companion volume by Oxford University Press. 2008.
Fine.
Edited by Peter Holland. Attractively printed by one of the leading contemporary British letterpress printers, this volume forms part of the Folio Society’s monumental edition of the entire works of Shakespeare printed by hand from metal type.
