Shakespeare, William

Bell's Edition. The Tempest ... Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and revised from the last Editions. London: John Bell, 1785



12mo (5 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.; 140 x 85 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of "Miss [Anna Maria] Phillips in Miranda," engraved additional title page; small tears and creases in lower margin of last few pages without loss. Contemporary mosaic cutout binding with layers of dark blue and citron laid over red, in a panel design with gilt-stamped stars, leaves, and an urn in the central medallion, spine gilt, edges gilt, in a contemporary slipcase of the same design; light wear at extremities of slipcase.

K.A. Burnim, John Bell, Patron of British Theatrical Portraiture (1998), no. 19

small tears and creases in lower margin of last few pages without loss. Contemporary mosaic cutout binding with layers of dark blue and citron laid over red, in a panel design with gilt-stamped stars, leaves, and an urn in the central medallion, spine gilt, edges gilt, in a contemporary slipcase of the same design; light wear at extremities of slipcase.
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An attractive copy in a lovely binding.