DOVES PRESS: SHAKESPEARE, William.

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Coriolanus. First Doves Press edition, one of 200 copies. Publication of Coriolanus was announced for the autumn of 1913 in the press's Catalogue Raisonné that April. Cobden-Sanderson, however, fell ill during its production, delaying its release. He continued to revise the text and compile the errata while convalescing at a nursing home in October 1913, and the work appeared in March 1914.The Doves Press was run by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson alongside his wife Anne. Cobden-Sanderson left his career as a lawyer in 1884 in order to open the Doves Bindery, establishing the Doves Press in 1900. He was interested in all aspects of book design, writing in his diary in 1898 that "I must, before I die, create the type for today of 'The Book Beautiful', and actualize it - paper, ink, writing, printing, ornament, and binding". The text of this edition is based on the First Folio, published in 1623.

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