Sold for:
$1,230
$1,230
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) The Vale Shakespeare . London: Ballantyne Press, 1900-1903. Thirty-nine large octavo volumes, edited by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944), with typographical ornamentation by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), bound in full publisher's light green cloth, stamped in blind, and lettered in gilt, pages crisp throughout, slight fading of spines, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. each, the set occupying 28 inches of shelf space. (39) The spare and elegant Vale Shakespeare, produced under the artistic direction of Ricketts, is a monument to the type faces it employs, subsequently destroyed by Ricketts after the press ceased operation in 1904.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
