signed first edition Folio in Custom Drop Spine Box
1937 · Garden City, New York
by (KENT, Rockwell) William Shakespeare
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1937. Limited Edition. Folio in Custom Drop Spine Box. Very Good+/Box: Very Good+. Rockwell Kent. Folio (matted lithograph sheets measure 8.75 x 11.5 inches; in matting, 15 x 18 inches). All 40 lithographs present. Slight age-toning to the mat board of first print, which is signed. In a custom box simulating the issued box, original label laid down, thus replacing the publisher's box most often found dilapidated. Two-inch scuff to bottom edge of box. Lacking booklet. Of an edition limited to 1,000 sets, this is numbered 37. Increasingly uncommon. Kent's austere, stylized treatment of Shakespeare's collected works is (truncated)