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Title: Three Illustrated Works of Literature Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Varoius dates Description: Includes: DORÉ, Gustave The Legend of the Wandering Jew. A Series of Twelve Designs...with Explanatory Introduction. New York: Fine Art Publishing Company, ca. 1870. Slim folio (38cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt, unadorned spine, brown glazed endpapers; unpaged; 12 plates, tissue guards. Extremities rubbed and worn, joints cracked, minor losses to endpapers, contents about fine. A Good or better copy of an attractive compilation. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; Alexander Liezen-Mayer, illus.; Seitz, Rudolf, ornaments Faust: Eine Tragödie...Erster Theil. München: Theodor Stroefers' Kunstverlag, [1877]. Folio (37.25cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth embossed in four colors, all edges gilt; 128pp.; 5 engraved plates, text illus. Extremities a bit rubbed with some minor scratching to rear cover, interior fine. Very Good. SHAKESPEARE, William Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. East Aurora, N.Y.: Roycroft Shop, 1902. First Thus. Quarto (26.5cm.); original quarter green reverse calf over gilt-lettered boards, green spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others deckled; [6],172,[1]pp.; title page printed within decorative border. Leather unevenly faded and a bit foxed, interior Fine. A Very Good copy in all. Donated by Lorne Bair Rare Books, Winchester, VA. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good to Fine Item number: 241367