The Tempest
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Overview:
- Title: The Tempest
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Year: 1926
- Publisher: Heinemann
- Price: 63/-
- Pages: xiii+185
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Tempest
- Notes:
- Edition de luxe
- Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisements that support the description in notes below, with Rackham as the artist: -- The Observer 1926-11-28 p7 "The Year's Rackham // The Tempest" -- Manchester Guardian -12-01 p14 "Heinemann's Christmas Books" The former identifies this edition: "Also an Edition de luxe of 260 signed copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, on handmade paper, and containing an added colour plate. £3 3s. net."
- "Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Of these, nos. 1 to 260 are for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, and nos. 261-520 in the United States of America". This Heinemann edition is thus copies 1 to 260; the US copies were published by Doubleday, Page.
- 20 mounted color plates and 25 b&w drawings by Rackham. [21 colour plates per publisher advertisement, above]
- Attached photo shows dj (left) and hard cover (right)
- Data from Mugwump Books (New York) -- as illustrated by Mary Grabhorn and WorldCat -- as illustrated by Rackham