Untitled historic item (043589)

First edition, first impression.  256pp, with plentiful full colour reproductions.  Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine.  Orange endpapers.  Heavy 4to.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, not price clipped, just slightly shelf worn. An impressive collection of scholarly essays tracing the visual depiction of Shakespeare's works through the ages from contemporary representations, through the print market of the 18th century, early illustrators, individual collections and galleries, theatrical painting from Hogarth to Fuseli and through the Romantic and Victorian eras - and closing with a look at Bardolatry.  With stunning and captivating illustrations.   Volume produced to compliment an exhibition of the many of the works represented at the Dulwich Picture Galley in London in early 2003.