Fine Press Limited Editions

William Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra. 
Hammersmith, England: Dove’s Press, 1912.

Printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson from the First Folio (1623). This copy is one of fifteen printed on vellum. The full Morocco binding is signed, “The Dove’s Bindery.” The F. W. Olin Library also owns one of the two hundred copies printed on paper.

William Shakespeare. Twenty-five Sonnets of Shakespeare. 
Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922.

Shakespeare Head Press was founded by A. H. Bullen in 1904 in honor of Shakespeare’s birthplace. 

Jean Cocteau. Romeo et Juliette, Pretexte a Mise en Scene d'apres le Drame de William Shakespeare. 
Paris: Se vend au Sans Pareil, 1926.

Full-page hand-colored illustrations of costume and set designs by Jean Victor-Hugo, grandson of Victor Hugo, for Cocteau’s stage production of Romeo et Juliette, which premiered in Paris at “le théâtre de la Cigale” in 1924. Edition limited to 420 copies.

William Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. 
Weimar: Cranach Press, 1930.

Printed by Cranach Press in Weimar, Germany.  Fine press edition of Hamlet containing eighty woodcuts and wood engravings of costumes, set designs, and character movements that cleverly interact with the printed text.  The illustrations were designed and cut by wood engraver, actor, and theater set designer, Edward Gordon Craig.  Title cut by Eric Gill.  Edited from the text of the second quarto printed in 1604-1605, "according to the true and perfect coppie.” Edition limited to 300 copies.

King Lear. San Francisco: David Magee, 1930.

Printed at the Curwen Press in England.  Ten photomechanical relief prints by John Yunge-Bateman (1897-1971), aka “Yunge,” reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley.  Edition limited to 240 copies. The Mills copy is one of thirty special copies contain an extra set of illustrations printed on Japanese paper.  Signed by artist. 

 “When Majesty turns to folly!”  King Lear, Act I, Scene I

Henryk Moosekowski. Shakespeare: Motions & the Man.
[Santa Cruz, CA]: Foolscap Press, 2003.

Printed by Foolscap Press (Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence G. Van Velzer) and issued as a keepsake for April Fools’ Day. Author's name is a pseudonym.  According to Foolscap Press, “Before the normally skeptical audience at the Interlude Conference of Shakespearean Scholars in Paris, Professor Henryk Moosekowski shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Shakespeare's dramatic life began as a puppeteer.”