SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Merchant of Venice. London, n.d. Illustrated with 36 mounted color plates by SIR JAMES D. LINTON. 4to, full blue morocco, covers with elaborate gilt-ruled strapwork borders incorporating square corner ornaments (each enclosing an onlaid red morocco rose ornament) and a large lozenge, upper cover with central onlaid vari-colored morocco design depicting The Merchant of Venice, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated onlaid red morocco rose ornament within a gilt-ruled panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 60 of 500 copies signed by Linton.

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Merchant of Venice. London, n.d. Illustrated with 36 mounted color plates by SIR JAMES D. LINTON. 4to, full blue morocco, covers with elaborate gilt-ruled strapwork borders incorporating square corner ornaments (each enclosing an onlaid red morocco rose ornament) and a large lozenge, upper cover with central onlaid vari-colored morocco design depicting The Merchant of Venice, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated onlaid red morocco rose ornament within a gilt-ruled panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 60 of 500 copies signed by Linton.

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