THE TEMPEST

Limited and numbered edition. Half-bound in green Nigerian Goatskin leather, the sides with marbled paper by Ann Muir. Typeset in 'Monotype' Baskerville with Caslon Display on Zerkall mould-made paper. Green endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bound-in green ribbon bookmark. In the green buckram-bound solander box with a leather label lettered in gilt to the spine. Recessed into the box is a companion volume of the Oxford University Press edition of the play bound in matching green buckram lettered in gilt to the spine, with a white label lettered in green to the front panel.

An edition of 3750 hand-numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society (and 25 lettered copies not for sale). This copy is no. 333. The text used is the 1987 Clarendon/Oxford University Press edition (edited by Stephen Orgel), the full edition of which is included (with introduction, notes and appendices) in the accompanying volume. Part of The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, hand-bound by G. Lachenmaier, Reutlingen and printed by Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Leipzig. The series is colour-coded according to genre: red for tragedies, blue for histories, green for comedies, and turquoise for sonnets and poems.