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(Vellum Binding)

Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy.

Shakespeare, William

Forgeois, Michele (illus.)

Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1988. Small quarto. 136pp. One of ten copies bound in full vellum by Jenifer Lindsay. Handsomely illustrated with black & white drawings by Michèle Forgeois. Calligraphic variations on the letters "R" and "J" by Mark Livingston are printed in the margins in lush purple, orange, green, blue, and brown. Lindsay's binding is beautifully supple. The heads and tails of the upper and lower covers display an impressive interlocking design of white silk threads. Spine title calligraphed in black ink. A beautiful binding befitting Lewis and Dorothy Allen’s sumptuous typographic tableau. Item #30670

Price: $2,750.00