No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. THE PROPERTY OF BRIAN DEAKIN The following two lots are from the collection of Brian Deakin, a friend of Giovanni Mardersteig's from the early 1970s, who assisted Mardersteig with English texts printed by the Officina Bodoni and was the editor of the press's edition of Songs from Shakespeare's Plays (the following lot).
PRIVATE PRESS -- OFFICINA BODONI: William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Songs from Shakespeare's Plays, edited by Brian Deakin. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974. 2°. Original green morocco-backed decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, original clear dustwrapper and slipcase.

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PRIVATE PRESS -- OFFICINA BODONI: William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Songs from Shakespeare's Plays, edited by Brian Deakin. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1974. 2°. Original green morocco-backed decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, original clear dustwrapper and slipcase.

NUMBER 52 OF 310 COPIES, THIS ONE AN AD PERSONAM COPY FOR GLADYS DEAKIN, the mother of the editor (identified on a printed leaf before the half-title). According to the limitation leaf, there were 10 'ad personam' copies on vellum; this copy on paper with an ad personam leaf is one of the 200 copies for English-speaking countries. Mardersteig 185.
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