‘Speak less than thou knowest’
Original Leaves from the First Four Folios of the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1623, 1632, 1663, 1685. Introduction by Edwin Eliott Willoughby.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1935.
Price: $15,000.00
About the item
Copy no. 44 of 65 copies printed on Whatman paper. Title printed in black and red. pp. (-x); pp. (1-18); colophon. Type Lutetia. Folio (365 x 244mm, 14-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches). Quarter red morocco and marbled boards. Book label of Bayard Kilgour. Quarter morocco dropbox. FINE. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 234; Disbound and Dispersed 13 ("David Magee … noted that this book 'seldom occurs for sale'").
Item #372629
First Folio: "The Taming of the Shrew" pp. 219-220; Second Folio: King Henry IV Part II, pp. 95-96, pp.83-4; Third Folio: King Lear, pp. 765-766; Fourth Folio: Othello pp. 125-126.
