[Fine Binding | Bagguley | Vale Press] Shakespeare's Sonnets E-List 32 the snake having been painted

the snake having been painted in green

Oxford at the Clarendon Press

Bright red watered silk endpapers

and breathtaking to consider the sheer number of hours that would have gone into its production

Wide turn-ins with gilt rules and floral and leaf tooling to corners

[Fine Binding | Bagguley | Vale Press] Shakespeare's Sonnets E-List 32 the snake having been paintedShakespeare, William. Shakespeares Sonnets. Reprinted from the Edition of 1609. London: Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1899. Wood engraved border with large decorative initial by Charles Ricketts. One of 210 copies on paper. Full red morocco by G. T. Bagguley, front cover with wide outer border in inlaid green morocco, triple filleted, with small square floral tools at the corners and midpoints, creating a restrained architectural frame to the more