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Lot 461
[SHAKESPEARE]. AUSTEN, John (1886?1948), illustrator. Hamle...
Estimate: $200 - $300
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[SHAKESPEARE]. AUSTEN, John (1886?1948), illustrator. Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. London: Selwyn & Blount, n.d. [1922]. 4to. Engraved title, numerous full?page plates, pictorial head? and tail?pieces, woodcuts in text by Austen. Publisher?s white cloth backed boards, upper cover decorated in gilt and turquoise, illustrated endpapers, uncut (spine toned, uneven sunning to upper cover edges, offsetting to endpapers). FIRST TRADE EDITION and generally regarded as the artist?s finest work with striking similarities of Beardsley and Harry Clarke. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.
