Hamlet William Shakespeare; Daniel Haberman (Design), Jack Wolfgang Beck (Illustrations)

Quarter black leather hardback beneath a cloth presentation slipcase. No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. The boards remain clean and sharp, gilt titling to the spine, with the 1612 ('Bellott v Mountjoy') signature in gilt to the upper front board. (The book remains essentially near fine.) The slipcase remains square and tight, but shows a light surface stain to the 'front', and some fraying of the cloth to the edges of the 'back', with a few additional though trifling marks. Design by Daniel Haberman. Illustrations by Jack Wolfgang Beck. (Excerpts from William Hazlitt's observations on 'Hamlet' from the 1818 edition of 'The Characters of Shakespear's Plays' furnish an Epilogue to the play text). First thus, 1972 (being "the sixth in a series of annual keepsakes for the friends of the publishers").