Author: SHAKESPEARE, William
Title: King Lear
Description: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1975. Paperback. Edited by Beatrice Tauss. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 265pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Bit of age toning and mild jacket edgewear. First of this edition, being side-by-side texts with the original text and a modern rendition -- "The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series." Though the three volumes in this series (the others are "Hamlet" and "Julius Caesar") are often seen in a slipcase, this unusual copy features a never-before-seen DUST JACKET showing a David Levinesque caricature of a dark, glowering Lear and notes, "Presented with the compliments of Great Northern Paper. .

Keywords: British Literature


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