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  • Publication: The TempestPublication Record # 539922
  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Date: 1926-11-00
  • Publisher: Heinemann
  • Price:
    63/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: xiii+185
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • Cover: The Tempest (1926) • by Arthur Rackham
  • Notes:
      Edition de luxe
    • Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisements that support the description in notes below, with Rackham as the artist: -- The Observer 1926-11-28 p7 "The Year's Rackham // The Tempest" -- Manchester Guardian -12-01 p14 "Heinemann's Christmas Books" The former identifies this edition: "Also an Edition de luxe of 260 signed copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, on handmade paper, and containing an added colour plate. £3 3s. net."
    • "Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Of these, nos. 1 to 260 are for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, and nos. 261-520 in the United States of America". This Heinemann edition is thus copies 1 to 260; the US copies were published by Doubleday, Page.
    • 20 mounted color plates and 25 b&w drawings by Rackham. [21 colour plates per publisher advertisement, above]
    • Attached photo shows dj (left) and hard cover (right)
    • Data from Mugwump Books (New York) -- as illustrated by Mary Grabhorn and WorldCat -- as illustrated by Rackham
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Chapbook Title: The Tempest • (1623) • chapbook by William Shakespeare

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