Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare

SHAKESPEARE (William)

Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare

Binding design and chromolithography by Henry Noel Humphreys, illuminated title page with historiated initial and lines from Macbeth. Second edition. Highly decorative sculpted and pierced black papier maché over crimson underlay with central cameo in brown of Shakespeare on front board and initials in calligraphic style on back board, later black leather spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards with gilt decoration, turn-ins with repeating gilt scroll design, red endpapers. All edges gilt. With later cloth drop back box. London: Longman Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858.

£1,200.00

This edition embodies the Victorian Gothic Revival style, as well as the values of the arts and crafts movement more generally.

Thirteen books: Ambition; Beauty; Honour; Truth; Time; Hope, Mercy, Jealousy; Life and Death; Friendship, Gratitude, Ingratitude; Woman, Constancy, Inconstancy, Patience; Revenge, Hatred, Rage, Despair; Descriptions; Similes; Love

Section from Humphreys’ preface: ‘In order that my jewel-case might be appropriate, I ave adopted the style of decorative art which prevailed in the Shakespearian age, – that peculiar phase of art with which Shakespeare himself sympathised, and in which he might have caused the work of a favourite author to be curiously bound and illuminated for his own book-room at Stratford.’

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