[1909] As You Like It

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition thus of this work with the lovely illustrations of Hugh Thomson, known for illustrating works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and J. M. Barrie. Dated from Copac, trade edition of this work also published in de luxe, limited and bound in full vellum issued simultaneously. Seen with titles and decorations to front board in gilt as well as in red and dark green. Priority unknown.

With twenty-four full page colour plates tipped in to brown thick paper, each protected by tissue guard. Collated, complete.

Shakespeare's famous pastoral comedy is believed to have been written in 1599 and was first published in the First Folio of 1623.