Description
DRAMAS by Guillermo Shakespeare. Translation by Mr. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo and José Arnaldo Márquez. Box drawings and engravings of the main German artists, according to the Barcelona edition, Library “Art and Letters”, 1881-1884. 3 Volumes. Numbered edition limited to 1,499 copies, by the Editor of the Friends of the Bibliophile Circle, 1980.
Volume I (translation by D. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo):
The merchant of Venice. Illustrations by Adolfo Schmitz, engravings by C. H. Schulze.
Macbeth. Il. from Grot Johan, gr. by H. Thiele.
Romeo and Juliet. Il. de Fernando Piloty and Pablo Thuman, gr. by H. Käseberg et al.
Othello. Il. de Eugenio Klimsch and Fernando Piloty, gr. by H. Käseberg and G. Treibmann.
Volume II (José Arnaldo Márquez translation):
Julius Caesar. Il. from A. Wagner, gr. Köseberg and Knesing.
As you like. Il. from E. Klimsch, gr. by Fernando Tegetmeyer.
Comedy of mistakes. Il. from H. Knacksuss, gr. by Otto Minde.
The merry grooms of Windsor. Il. de P. Thumann, gr. by H. Günther.
Volume III (translation José Arnaldo Márquez):
Summer night Dream. Il. de P. Thumann, gr. from Günther and Käseberg.
Measure by measure. Il. from Friedrich, gr. from Tegetmeyer.
Coriolano. Il. from A. Wagner, gr. from Knesing.
Winter’s Tale. Il. from Max and Klimsch, gr. Kaeseberg and Treibmann.
Volumes luxuriously bound in dry-etched and embossed editorial leather, with color and gold motifs on both planes; golden upper cut, guide tape and golden spine with 2 tiles. Printed on good laid paper with the watermark of the Bibliophile Circle, without signs of the passage of time. Format 14.5 x 21 cm. 478, 510 and 526 pages.
It is a beautiful edition of the classic dramas of the great William Shakespeare (1564-1616), like almost all of the Bibliophile Circle, in perfect condition except for the following “flaws”, which are not very important but we must record , since not all bibliophiles have the same tastes when purchasing their books (those interested can ask us for photographs in more detail, if they need them):
In Volume I:
A bit dirty front edge, with slight pen marks.
Cover with 3 small pen points.
On page 134 illustration indicated with the number 3 in ballpoint pen.
On page 137 idem with number 4.
On page 156 idem with the number 6.
On page 183 idem with number 9.
On page 397 idem with number 6.
On page 233 below the illustration, dark area without affecting anything.
On the pages of “Romeo and Juliet” there were many pencil notes that have been erased.
In Volume II:
Cover with 3 small pen points.
In Volume III:
Cover with 1 small point of ballpoint pen.
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