Accession number
PML 251249
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
Chicago : Privately printed, Black Cat Press, [1968]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title page printed in maroon and black; frontispiece illustration of William Shakespeare's portrait printed in black.
Printed on double leaves.
"This ... exploration of the works of Shakespeare, made with a view to isolating the dramatist's curiously prescient views on contemporary events, was part of an Address ... at the Shakespeare Birthday Dinner of the Chicago Foundation for Literature, at the Blackstone Hotel, May 9, 1942"--Note (page [4]).
"Note"(pages [4-5]), typesigned at end page: Vincent Starrett.
"Printed in a limited edition on superfine paper by Charles Young at the Norman Press. Bound by hand by Bela Blau. Design & typography by Norman W. Forgue"--Colophon.
Date of publication from the references cited below.
Housed in box labelled Black Cat Press / Norman W. Forgue.
Printed on double leaves.
"This ... exploration of the works of Shakespeare, made with a view to isolating the dramatist's curiously prescient views on contemporary events, was part of an Address ... at the Shakespeare Birthday Dinner of the Chicago Foundation for Literature, at the Blackstone Hotel, May 9, 1942"--Note (page [4]).
"Note"(pages [4-5]), typesigned at end page: Vincent Starrett.
"Printed in a limited edition on superfine paper by Charles Young at the Norman Press. Bound by hand by Bela Blau. Design & typography by Norman W. Forgue"--Colophon.
Date of publication from the references cited below.
Housed in box labelled Black Cat Press / Norman W. Forgue.
Description
32 pages : illustration, portrait ; 61 x 67 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Full black diced morocco, with vignette of Shakespeare's portrait stamped in gilt; stamped in gilt on spine; red marbled endpapers.
Classification
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