ROBINSON, W. Heath (illus.); SHAKESPEARE, William.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Twelfth Night Signed limited edition, number 159 of 350 copies signed by the artist. Robinson's atmospheric watercolours for this work were exhibited at the Brook Street Gallery in 1908 to great acclaim.A contemporary review in the Graphic noted that this illustrated edition "has the advantage of the poetic insight and decorative skill which mark Mr W. Heath Robinson's serious work" and that the drawings were "instinct with the decorative spirit of the play". Robinson (1872-1944) has been described as "the most versatile" major book illustrator of his age in Britain (Peppin & Micklethwait, p. 259) and "the only British illustrator to become a 'household name'" (Houfe, p. 437).

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