Research Catalog

Title

The tempest / William Shakespeare.

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Publication

Lexington, Ky. : The Anvil Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hammer, Carolyn Reading
• Thomas, Gloria
• Anvil Press (Lexington, Ky.), publisher.

Description

x, 107 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 24 cm

Subjects

• Castaways > Drama
• Magicians > Drama
• Shipwreck survival > Drama
• Private press books > Kentucky > Lexington > 20th century

Genre/Form

Private press books – Kentucky – Lexington – 20th century.

Note

• Forward and afterword by Carolyn Reading Hammer.
• Booklet, entitled "A woodcut printed at the Windell Press for The Anvil Press 1993" which includes Gloria Thomas' chiaroscuro woodcut, laid in front.
• Illustrated title page based on the chiaroscuro woodcut by Gloria Thomas, which was commissioned for this printing.
• "This text for The Tempest has been composed in Victor Hammer's American uncial typeface and seventy-five copies printed on Magnani paper with his watermark ... Though Shakespeare's last play without collaboration, this, my last play, has had the sympathetic and most helpful collaboration with Paul Holbrook at the press and W. Gay Reading who, at his Windell Press, has printed Gloria Thomas's chiaroscuro woodcut, commisioned for this Anvil Press edition of the Tempest.--C.R.H./November/ 1992""--afterword.

Binding (note)

• Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth with printed paper label, and hand-painted paper boards.

Call Number

Rare Books 19-475

LCCN

95122129

OCLC

38199606

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title

The tempest / William Shakespeare.

Imprint

Lexington, Ky. : The Anvil Press, 1993.

Edition

Mr. Edward Capell's edition of 1768.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth with printed paper label, and hand-painted paper boards. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 19-475 is no. 32 of 75 copies.

Rare Book Division Accession File 1990-1999 (rbk90.ask), Converted September 10, 2006.

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Added Author

Hammer, Carolyn Reading, writer of supplementary textual content.

Thomas, Gloria, ill.

Anvil Press (Lexington, Ky.), publisher.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 19-475