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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939-1940. Hardcover. Slight browning to the gutters of some volumes, contents bright and fresh. Spines foxed to varying degrees, some very much so. Overall an attractive set in at least Very Good condition. Arthur Rackham; Eric Gill; Robert Gibbings; Frans Masereel; Jean Charlot. Thirty-seven folio (8-3/4" x 13") volumes bound in gold-stamped half natural buckram, top edges gilt, with the paper sides, printed in four colors. Edited by Herbert Farjeon, who created the Nonesuch edition text of Shakespeare, to restore the original typographic style and spelling; typography planned and production supervised by Bruce Rogers. Each of the 37 volumes is illustrated by one of the world's leading book artists including Arthur Rackham, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Jean Charlot, and Frans Masereel. Media include wood engravings and lithographs with some hand coloring. An attempt to "produce a text such as Shakespeare himself might have passed for the printer had he personally… Read More

[High Wycombe]: [Limited Editions Club], [1933]. Hardcover. A beautiful book, often found quite worn because of the nature of the pigskin binding, this copy is in above average condition, with mild darkening and light wear to the spine ends and corners. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with the beginning of splits and an inch gouge along the backstrip. Eric Gill. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8") bound in full blind-stamped pigskin leather and typeset and printed by hand on Barcham Green paper by Hague and Gill. Copy #436 of 1500 designed and decorated with wood engravings by Eric Gill and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.