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First Edition, First Printing with the Thomson Illustrations. With 24 mounted colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each with a cptioned tissued guard. Quarto, handsomely bound in the publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and red titles with dark green pictorial decorations to the upper cover. xxxvi, 143, [1] pp. A beautiful copy, bright and fresh, the binding is very attractive and finely preserved, internally well preserved with some of the usual spotting occasional to the foredges, a bit of mellowing, the plates and tissue guards all in excellent condition.

Edizione: shakepeare's pleasant work, presented in as pleasing an illustrated format as one could hope to find. hugh thomson’s delightfully detailed and skillful illustrations would be hard to surpass, making this a true gem in its pretty binding. thomson's pen-and-ink drawings are in much the same style as those he did for works by jane austen and charles dickens.<br> as you like it is a pastoral comedy by william shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the first folio in 1623. the play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at wilton house in 1603 (the house having been a focus for literary activity under mary sidney for much of the later 16th century) has been suggested as a possibility. <br> the play follows its heroine rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the forest of arden. in the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller jaques, who speaks one of shakespeare's most famous speeches ("all the world's a stage") and provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play, always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country.