THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1947 FINE BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. The Sonnets. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1947.

Hardcover. Reprinted, June, 1947. Full leather. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), pp. (6), 77. Attractive contemporary full tan calf binding, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with two raised bands, gilt ruling, tooling and lettering. Twin gilt ruled frames to boards. Inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Hand-marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks present. Printed by A. R. Mowbray & Co. Limited. The text for this edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets is that prepared for the Stratford Town Edition by the late Arthur Henry Bullen. Decorative bookplate of one Edmund M. Prince to front pastedown. Condition: NEAR FINE. Tiny amount of rubbing to covers, otherwise an immaculate copy presented in an exquisite binding.