Limited edition. Unique designed binding by Glenn Bartley. Full tan goatskin, hand-dyed with black morocco onlays and incisions painted with acrylic. Gold and blind tooling. Silk pastedowns, gilt decorated inner dentelles, felt endpapers. All edges red. Printed on Magnani paper. The text is set in 12 point Tallone type, engraved by Charles Malin in Paris. A fine copy. Housed in a bespoke black cloth solander case, titles in gilt on a blue morocco label to the backstrip.
Issued in a limited edition of 525 copies, comprising 360 printed on Magnani paper, 160 printed on Amatruda paper and 5 on Japan Hosho paper. This example on Magnani is printed 'copy not for sale' on the limitation page. An exquisitely printed fine press edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet in a unique binding by the multi-award winning bookbinder (now Head of the Royal Bindery in Windsor Castle), Glenn Bartley.
Stock code: 25870
£2,250