Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Hodder & Stoughton, London.

BINDING
Green cloth boards with red, gold and black lettering and designs.

BOOK CONDITION
Fair. Some foxing. Hinge a little weak and slightly split at rear. Colour plates and protective tissue preserved in good condition.

DUST JACKET
no.

EDITION
Undated, but inscribed 1916. Text is printed by permission from the Oxford edition.

DESCRIPTION
A beautiful illustrated edition containing over twenty colour plates by W.G. Simmonds. These are each protected by a thin paper / tissue sheet and are all intact. The colour plates are printed on separate glossy paper and attached / glued by their left-hand side only. The text of the play is preceded by a prose retelling of the story by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Inscription to previous owner dated 1916.

SYNOPSIS
In Shakespeare's longest play, Hamlet Prince of Denmark tries to exact revenge on his Uncle Claudius; who has killed Hamlet's father and married his mother to seize the throne.