Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Folio Society hardcover copy of The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare in a Very Good slipcase. First Folio Society Edition, unstated, with London 1955 on the title page. First Impression unstated on copyright page with no ISBN number. Features seven full page color illustrations of the costume designs by Tanya Moiseiwitch from the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre touring production of Othello in 1968.
Very Good hardcover with lightly faded, cloth-covered boards, strong gilt on author’s initials and title on spine and a two-color design of seven feathers on the front board. Also, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, rolled and rubbed spine ends, heavy edge wear, and rubbed corners.
No dust jacket as issued. No slipcase.
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello’s African past.
Thin volume (single play) ships promptly with s
