Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional hardcover copy of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare in a Very Good dust jacket, protected in a new archival wrap. First Arden Shakespeare Edition 1912. Fourth edition, revised and reset, 1956 stated. Edited by Peter Ure.
Near Fine hardcover with clean, bright, cloth-covered boards, strong gilt title on a straight spine, lightly foxed top page block, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and one rounded corner.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild foxing, heavy edge wear, a sunned spine and the $3.85 price on the front flap looks great in a new archival wrap.
King Richard II deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day–the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of Henry IV, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard’s death in the spring of 1400.
Thin volume (single play) ships promptly with s
