The Tempest. By William Shakespeare.

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London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd. and Doubleday Page & Co. no date (1926). 4to. Original quarter vellum stamped in gilt (shelf-soiled). Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. (xiv 186pp.). With 21 colour plates including frontispiece and extra plate not found in trade edition and black and white text illustrations. Limited 'de-luxe' edition of 520 copies numbered and signed by the artist this being No. 87. Light foxing on end-papers otherwise a fine copy. Hudson p. 171; Latimore & Haskell pp. 61-62. NOTE: The Tempest is one of the last plays that Shakespeare is believed to have written alone and was included in 'Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies Histories & Tragedies' also commonly known as the First Folio. It was the first recorded publishing of the play.