Buy this book on-line SHAKESPEARE,WILLIAM - Edited by Charles Rosner: : THE COMPLETE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARELONDON.SYLVAN PRESS LIMITED,1955. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,Ltd.+No'd,1st edn.[Printed in a limited edition by Balding & Mansell,Wisbech,Cambs,of copies numbered
1-500 for Sylvan Press Limited,London for
sale at 2 Guineas each).This example numbered CLXXVI - 176/500.] FINE+/NFINE.
No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (2 Guineas) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean and virtually unmarked/unblemished,red paper dw/dj,with bright,crisp,stamped gilt
lettered title to top edge of upper panel of dw/dj,gilt stamped letter to spine/
backstrip with some very,very slight oxidisation to some letters,but still very
legible,bright,crisp,stamped gilt price to front inner flap of dw/dj.Negligible creasing to top edge of dw/dj only - due in part to it's slight oversize,and with 3 miniscule,closed nicks/tears - 2 near spine/backstrip's front+rear gutter edges and another one,slightly further along the
rear panel's same top edge - no other nicks or tears present.Dw/dj is in an unexpected and an exceptional condition - particularly given it's fragility and it's
age too! Top edge coloured red,fore-edges very lightly aged/tanned but clean,
contents bright,tight,solid and sound and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases
to any pages' corners - possibly an unread
example? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain brick
red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt title letters to top edge of upper/
front bd and similar letters to spine/
backstrip,with a sewn-in brown,silk bookmark ribbon,and near immaculate,plain white/cream eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,ltd/
no'd.,1st edn,84pp - excluding free endpapers [unpaginated] includes half-title+title pages,all Shakespeare's sonnets (152),2pp blanks at rear,and the
limitation page at rear also.
A Sylvan Press Limited,(Sylvanus Edition)limited/no'd edn,edited by Charles Rosner.
The volume was set by the Stempel Type Foundry,Frankfurt a.M.,and printed in a limited edition by Balding & Mansell at Park Works,Wisbech,Cambs.Copies numbered 1-500 for Sylvan Press Limited,Museum House,London,W.C.1.,for sale.
Copies numbered I-CCCCC for Balding & Mansell Limited,3 Bloomsbury Place,London,
W.C.1.,for private circulation only,and fifty unnumbered copies for the Type Foundry.It is the first British volume to be produced in the Palatino type face designed by Hermann Zapf.
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