Shakespeare (William)

Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies being a reproduction facsimile of the First Folio edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. with introduction […] by Sidney Lee.

Limited edition, half-title with limitation on the reverse, one of 1,000 copies, this being copy number 791 signed by Sidney Lee, publisher’s reversed calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, red leather labels, calf ties, one lacking, lower joint splitting, extremties rubbed, endpapers browned, without the supplementary census of copies, folio, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902

Provenance: receipt from Colin Page Antiquarian Books, November 1997

***The first accurate photographic facsimile reproduction of Shakespeare’s First Folio.