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The Tragedie of King Lear

Item date(s): 1986

William Shakespeare
Claire Van Vliet  - (book artist)


Pages: 134pp
Size: 370mm
Edition: One of 160 copies

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: Bagnor, Maine
Publisher: Theodore Press (produced at the Janus Press)

Additional notes:
With woodcuts by Claire Van Vliet. The text of the 1623 First Folio. The Illustrations were printed by the artist at the Janus Press, Vermont. Birch covers individually decorated by Claire Van Vliet. Cover in slipcase.

Illustrated on page 115 of Fine Print, Volume 15, Number 3, 1989 and reviewed on page 114.

Illustrated in Joshua Heller Rare Books Catalogue #37, 2009, Item

Ref: GB/5863



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