All for Love. or, The World Well Lost : A Tragedy San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. by John Henry Nash, 1929.
First edition thus. One of 250 numbered copies, of which this is copy no. 41.
Quarto. xxix, 97 pp., with two frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare and Dryden and 13 color plates. Compliments slip tipped in. Vellum backed publisher's boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. With facsimile reprint of the 1678 first edition in matching binding, and with dual slipcase. Slipcase lightly worn, both volumes fine.
An excellent copy of this stunning limited edition of Dryden's tragic masterpiece, depicting the final hours of Cleopatra and Mark Antony.
ID:
6237
$
200