Baskin, Leonard (illustrator)
William Shakespeare: Othello
£500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press], 1973. Folio, text in unbound bifolia, signed and numbered 1/200 by Baskin on the colophon leaf, 10 woodcut plates on Japanese paper, each numbered 1/200 and signed by Baskin in pencil, with a suite of duplicate plates, each numbered 1x/200 and signed by Baskin in pencil, all loose as issued in the original solander box
Footnote
Note: First edition, deluxe issue, the tête-de-tirage, number 1 of 200 copies with an additional suite of woodcuts and available only from the Kennedy Galleries in New York; there were also 200 bound copies. This is the second and final published volume of the never-completed Gehenna Shakespeare; the first volume was Titus Andronicus, which appeared in 1970.