Freedman (Barnett) [Six rough proof lithographs for Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I], 6 colour lithographs, no text, bound in original cloth-backed boards, with manuscript paper label inscribed "...for Fred Phillips from Barnett Freedman 1939" on upper cover, patterned-paper endpapers, rubbed at edges, transparent wrapper torn, folio, Limited Editions Club, 1939. ⁂ Fred Phillips was owner of the Baynard Press for which Barnett Freedman did a great deal of work, mostly lithographed titles and illustrations but he also designed 'Baynard Claudia', an alphabet of decorated initial letters. These lithographs were produced for the complete works of Shakespeare issued by the Limited Editions Club from 1939 to 1940 in 39 volumes, designed by Bruce Rogers with a different illustrator for each volume.
Freedman (Barnett) [Six rough proof lithographs for Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I], 6 colour lithographs, no text, bound in original cloth-backed boards, with manuscript paper label inscribed "...for Fred Phillips from Barnett Freedman 1939" on upper cover, patterned-paper endpapers, rubbed at edges, transparent wrapper torn, folio, Limited Editions Club, 1939. ⁂ Fred Phillips was owner of the Baynard Press for which Barnett Freedman did a great deal of work, mostly lithographed titles and illustrations but he also designed 'Baynard Claudia', an alphabet of decorated initial letters. These lithographs were produced for the complete works of Shakespeare issued by the Limited Editions Club from 1939 to 1940 in 39 volumes, designed by Bruce Rogers with a different illustrator for each volume.
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