William Shakespeare — Shakespeare&Apos;S Comedy As You Like It

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of Hugh Thomson's charmingly illustrated edition of Shakespeare's beloved comedy, illustrated with colour plates. The first trade edition of Thomson's edition.Illustrated with forty tipped in colour plates by Thomson, each with captioned tissue guards. Collated, complete.Thomson was a celebrated illustrator known for his pen and ink illustrations of classic works of literature, remembered for inaugurating the Cranford School of Illustration with his edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's work of the same name.With the bookplate of Zoe Maw to the front pastedown.A wonderful edition of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, in which heroine Rosalind flees persecution at court to find love in the forest of Arden. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright. Back strip significantly age toned, with a touch of fraying to back strip head. Small area of fading to fore edge of front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Hugh Thomson. Very Good Indeed .