Arcadia

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 367 of 400 copies. SIGNED BY TOM STOPPARD AND WILLIAM MATTHEWS. Arcadia is a masterwork of contemporary English drama, considered by many as the finest play by Tom Stoppard, whose work New York Times critic Clive Barnes called "unrivaled in today's English-speaking theater". The play had its first performance in London in 1993. Of Stoppard's "high comedies of ideas", Arcadia is surely the funniest, most affecting, and readily comprehended. It immediately touches the heart." Bound in dark green Japanese cloth with light green paper title labels to front cover and spine. Printed in Monotype (truncated) Scotch Roman and Lilith types on mouldmade Zerkall paper. The four watercolor illustrations by are printed digitally in continuous tone on mouldmade Somerset paper. In an unusual construction, the four prints fold out from the insides of the cover, two from the front, two from the back. Housed in a slipcase with light green paper boards and dark green cloth paper spine. Accompanied by the prospectus. In fine condition in fine slipcase. Book is oblong 11 inches x 14 inches. 114 pages PRI/100224. (Inventory #: 37509)