[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. Forty Drawings...to Illustrate the Works of William Shakespeare... N.p., n.d. [Garden City, New York, 1937?]. 40 lithographed prints after Kent's drawings for the 1936 edition of Shakespeare published by Doubleday & Co., two prints with an additional color overlaid, the rest in black only, ONE PRINT SIGNED IN PENCIL BY ROCKWELL KENT in lower corner. 40 prints, each 288 x 220 mm. (11½ x 8½ in.), individually matted (some light mat-burning), all in dark blue folding box with printed paper cover label, the case worn with one side torn away and some edges tape-reinforced. LIMITED EDITION, number 405 of 1000 sets with one signed print by Kent. (2)

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[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. Forty Drawings...to Illustrate the Works of William Shakespeare... N.p., n.d. [Garden City, New York, 1937?]. 40 lithographed prints after Kent's drawings for the 1936 edition of Shakespeare published by Doubleday & Co., two prints with an additional color overlaid, the rest in black only, ONE PRINT SIGNED IN PENCIL BY ROCKWELL KENT in lower corner. 40 prints, each 288 x 220 mm. (11½ x 8½ in.), individually matted (some light mat-burning), all in dark blue folding box with printed paper cover label, the case worn with one side torn away and some edges tape-reinforced. LIMITED EDITION, number 405 of 1000 sets with one signed print by Kent. (2)

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[With:] SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Complete Works. Garden City, 1936. Illustrated by Kent. 4to, original cloth; dust jacket; publisher's board slipcase.

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