Description
Signed limited edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Quarto, viii, 170pp. Full vellum, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Contemporary ribbons added to original slits along fore edge of covers. Solid text block, light wear to corners, faint soling to spine. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise fine interior. A near fine example. Complete with forty illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Each is a full-page color plate mounted to cardstock with a captioned tissue guard.
From a signed limited edition of 350 copies; numbers 1-250 for sale in Britain, and numbers 251-350 for sale in the United States. This copy is number 265, signed by illustrator Hugh Thomson on limitation page.
