[Rarebooks] FS: Monroe Wheeler's Harrison of Paris first imprint: Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS, copy XII of only 20 copies

[Charles Agvent]

SHAKESPEARE, William. VENUS AND ADONIS. [Paris]: Harrison of Paris, 
[1930]. Bound in original 3/4 black morocco with silver lettering on the 
spine and silver paper boards and endpapers. Designed by Monroe Wheeler 
and printed by Ducros and Colas. Of a total edition of 475 copies, this 
is copy XII of only XX printed on iridescent Japan vellum. The first 
book of the press here in one of its smallest limitations. Minor foxing 
to the outer margins of a few pages. Small piece of leather chipped from 
the head of the spine and neatly reinserted. Near Fine copy housed in an 
apparently later board slipcase. (#010424)        $750.00

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