ERIC GILL. William Shakespeare. — Henry the Eighth. With wood engravings by Eric Gill.

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1st Edition, The first edition with these illustrations, limited to 1,950 numbered copies, designed by Bruce Rogers (this being #596). Folio. Holland-backed patterned boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tips of two corners slightly bumped, else a fine copy with none of the customary offsetting from the illustrations to adjacent leaves. Commentary laid-in, as issued. One of thirty-seven uniform volumes of 'The Comedies, Histories and Tragedies of William Shakespeare' issued by the Limited Editions Club, each featuring the work of a different illustrator., Near Fine