![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The text here is based on the 1623 First Folio, with eight pages of errata for that printing. This is a beautiful copy of the last of four Shakespeare plays to be printed by the Doves Press, a play based on the life of Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus, originally written around 1608. Free endpapers with the usual minor offsetting from turn-ins, a couple of trivial paper flaws to margins, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out. ![]() Front pastedown with morocco ex-libris of Austin Smith and engraved bookplate of Mary Priscilla Smith. Excellent very dark blue crushed morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with double gilt fillet border, central panel simply framed with four gilt fillets, four circlets at the intersection of the lines, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, two with gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. ONE OF 200 COPIES on paper (and 15 copies on vellum). ![]()
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