A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, limited folio edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Tempest&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tempest</a>, signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (French-Russian).</li><li>After William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Monte Carlo:&nbsp;Andre Sauret,&nbsp;1975.</li><li>Folio.&nbsp;</li><li>Fifty lithographs overall, with original tissue guards.</li><li>Limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copies (this is #96), 270 the entire edition.</li><li>Original glassine wrappers; printed on Arches wove paper, in a cream vellum box, stamped in gilt on cover, held in original publisher's cardboard shipping box with label.</li></ul> A wonderful and evocative series of lithographs, produced when Chagall was 88 years old. When Raymond Levy of Editions André Sauret first approached the artist about illustrating Shakespeare's Tempest, Chagall initially hesitated because he was afraid he might not do justice to the text, but then between March and May 1975, he produced fifty drawings on tracing paper, which were transferred onto zinc plates and sent back to Chagall for final retouching.

The Tempest | Signed by Chagall

A finely bound edition of Boaden's Shakespeare inquiry.<ul><li>James Boaden (English).</li><li>An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare.</li><li>London: Printed for Robert Triphook [B. M'Millan, Printer, Bow-street, Covent-Garden], 1824.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>206 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco with five Cosway-style watercolor miniatures under glass on the upper cover, by Riviere &amp; Son, in open-faced red cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints...of Shakespeare

Finely bound sixth edition copy of Othello.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Othello, The Moor of Venice. A Tragedy.</li><li>London: for Richard Bentley, 1695.</li><li>(ii)76 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco, vertical lettered spine, covers ruled in gilt and gilt dentelles.</li></ul>

Othello

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of The Dramatic Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Notes by S. W. Singer, A Life... by W. Watkiss Lloyd.</li><li>London: George Bell and Sons, 1888.</li><li>Bound in full tan calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered red and black morocco spine labels, covers ruled in gilt and blind, blind tooled dentelles, marbled pastedowns, endpapers, and edges, engraved bookplate to front pastedowns of Ascott House Buckinghamshire.</li></ul>

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare | With A Life Of The Author

First American edition of the Boydell collection of the Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by John Boydell (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Shearjashub Spooner,&nbsp;1852.&nbsp;</li><li>205 pages; 200 pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>51 illustrated plates; 49 illustrated plates.</li><li>Three-quarter bound in red morocco and red buckram with gilt ruling and lettering to spine and gilt ruling to boards.</li></ul> Boydell was a British publisher and engraver who decided to undertake the massive project of creating an illustrated folio edition of Shakespeare’s works that took nearly twenty years to complete, and the first edition was published in 1805. It incorporates engravings based on the works of dozens of prominent artists, including George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffman.

Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

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