The Heroines of Shakespeare Comprising the Principal Female Characters in the Plays of the Great Poet
London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original three-quarter blue leather over textured purple boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering on red leather label of spine, elaborate tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers. Engraved in the highest style of art, from drawings by eminent artists, and letterpress extracts from the text, in English and French; and critical essays on each of the characters. The engravings include renderings by the artists J. W. Wright, W. P. Frith, A. Egg, K. Meadows, J. Haytor, E. Corbuid, and A. Johnston, and include Juliet, Rosalind, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, Cordelia, Portia, Cleopatra, Desdemona, in all forty-eight of Shakespeare's female characters. Each play with engraved half-title. Descriptive text in English and French. Binding with light wear along edges and front board partially discolored due to water exposure. Lightly starting at inside covers and depiction of Hero. Of the forty-eight engravings of characters eleven with foxing in plate, fifteen with foxing in margins. Good- to very good condition. Item #54844
Price: $225.00