[FINE PRESS -- DOVES PRESS & BINDERY]. SHAKESPEARE. The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet... INSCRIBED.
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Nov 14, 2024
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[FINE PRESS -- DOVES PRESS & BINDERY]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1909.
8vo. Printed in red and black, 5-line initial flourished in apple-green by Edward Johnston. Original vellum-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery (extremities lightly sunned).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 265 copies, of which 250 were printed on paper. INSCRIBED BY THE PRINTER AND BINDER, THOMAS JAMES COBDEN-SANDERSON on the rear pastedown: "The Doves Bindery. C.S. 1909." For this edition of Hamlet, the text of the second Quarto edition was used with some corrections by Cobden-Sanderson, who also “tried to improve the punctuation” (Tidcombe DP17).
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