The Tempest

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