拍品 306
  • 306

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL. LONDON: 1908. ONE OF 350 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST

估價
800 - 1,200 USD
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描述

  • Twelfth Night, or What You Will. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908
  • 11  1/4  x 8  7/8  x 1  3/4  inches
Large 4to. Color frontispiece, woodcut title, captioned tissue guards, 39 color plates by W. Heath Robinson tipped onto gray paper. Original full vellum, cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; lacking silk tie. 

出版

Daily Independent Journal, 6 November 1971, p. 30

Condition

Large 4to. Color frontispiece, woodcut title, captioned tissue guards, 39 color plates by W. Heath Robinson tipped onto gray paper. Original full vellum, cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; lacking silk tie.
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拍品資料及來源

Edition de Luxe, number 71 of 350 copies signed by the artist.  in 1971, while a student at the College of Marin, Williams was cast as Malvolio in the theater department's production of Twelfth Night. At the time, a local newspaper reviewed it critically, until it touched upon Williams' performance: "All was not lost, however, thanks to a marvellous portrayal by Williams as Malvolio.  His antics made a the rather longish evening worthwhile.  Had his characterization not worked, the production may well have fallen on its Shakespearean face."