The Tempest
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Overview:
- Title: The Tempest
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Year: 1926
- Publisher: Heinemann
- Price: 21/-
- Pages: ix+185
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Tempest
- Notes:
- Ordinary trade edition
- Publ date (inferred) and price from brief review 1926-11-25 p5 and publisher advertisements: -- The Observer 1926-11-28 p7 "The Year's Rackham // The Tempest" -- Manchester Guardian -12-01 p14 "Heinemann's Christmas Books" The first advertisement says of this, in contrast to the Edition de luxe: "With 20 full-page colour plates and many decorations by Arthur Rackham. 21s. net."
- See the Edition de luxe for more information
- Data from WorldCat: -- "London : Heinemann ; New York : Doubleday, 1926" -- "ix, 185 p. ; 26 cm" Cited records of the UK and US deluxe eds. report xiii+185 pages.
- Dealers at ABEbooks.com as of 2017-04-29: -- several provide bookseller images that show cover design identical to that of the deluxe ed. -- two give descriptions that confirm page-count ix+185 -- one says of a US copy, "First Trade Edition, published after the signed limited edition."