Shakespeare's Mental Photographs
New York; Boston: Hurd and Houghton; E. P. Dutton, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 36pp. Original burgundy cloth with with gilt lettering and decor and blind-stamped triple ruling on cover, blind-stamped title design on back cover, protected by modern mylar. Yellow endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. The game consists of ten questions, to each of which there are twenty answers. The Questions are: 1. What are you? 2. What Quality or Qualities in others among you?... The answers are Shakespeare quotations. To obtain a photograph, one of the party must keep the book and ask the questions in order; the person asked, being at liberty to choose any number from one to twenty. Light wear along edges, small chips with a quarter inch chip at head of spine. Sunned along edges and spine. Previous owner's name inked to both front free endpapers, William Ross, possibly the composer, in particular second signature. Yellow front endpaper with light remnants of pencil entries. Block lightly age-toned. Binding in overall fair, interior in good+ condition. fair to good+. Item #47871
Price: $150.00