The Beauties of Shakespeare
$1,500.00
The Beauties of Shakespeare with a General Index by the Rev William Dodd, LL. D.
London: J.F. Dove (printer), 1824.
Limp case of lake trout and Atlantic salmon parchment, pieced together with parchment tackets painted with various colors of shell gold and palladium. All parchment processed from raw skins and dyed by the binder using natural logwood, lac, weld, and onion skin. Hook Pottery BK text handmade paper endsheets. Bound 2022.
5 9/16 x 3 3/8 x 1 1/8”
14 x 8.5 x 2.5 cm
William Dodd’s 1752 frequently-reprinted Beauties of Shakespeare is an anthology of excerpts from the plays. Dodd was an Anglican clergyman who resorted to forgery to support his extravagant lifestyle. He was convicted and executed in 1777.
