[Rarebooks] FS: Cheloniidae Press BIRDS AND BEASTS OF SHAKESPEARE, price reduced
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Wed Mar 30 10:43:53 EDT 2016
Price reduced to $9500 NET
(CHELONIIDAE PRESS) SHAKESPEARE, William (ROBINSON, Alan James). THE
BIRDS AND BEASTS OF SHAKESPEARE. (Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press,
1990. First Edition. Folio (10-3/8" x 15-7/8"), the exact untrimmed size
of the First Folio of 1623, bound by Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton
in full gilt-lettered rust morocco, with marbled endsheets by Faith
Harrison, in a custom cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered large
morocco spine label. Designed by illustrator Alan James Robinson and
Arthur Kinney, who wrote the text. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings
depicting the birds and beasts and one wood engraving as well as an
etching of Shakespeare. This is copy #I of 5 special proof copies (of a
total edition of only 131) printed by Harold Patrick McGrath on
Cheloniidae rag made specially for the Press, the first paper to carry a
Cheloniidae watermark, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon
page. With an extra suite of the engravings and etching, each SIGNED and
numbered by Robinson, plus another suite, issued only with the
limitation of 5, containing two working proofs of each wood engraving
and three state proofs of the etching, all SIGNED by Robinson. In
addition there are two ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS--one of a wolf, the
other a lion-- INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the artist to the original owner.
Prospectus laid in. The rarest state of the greatest achievement of the
press. Fine in a clamshell box, a beautiful book. (#015716) $12,500.00
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