Twelfth Night or, What You Will

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In the publishers half brown morocco, raised bands, gilt titles, over pictorially stamped brown cloth (featuring the play's characters in miniature) by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lightly rubbed, some browning to page edges. Internally, print detail leaf, title with illustration by Ravilious within a decorative border, half title, [1], [1], 2-75 pp, [1], [1] limitation leaf, 30 illustrations (wood engravings including tp, some full page), t.e.g., remainder uncut. An edition limited to 275 copies, printed and published by Robert & Moira Gibbings, the text followed is that of the Globe edition. (333*237 mm). (Chanticleer 82. Franklin - Private Presses 2nd ed p339/340. Powers "Eric Ravilious, Artist & Designer, p.41). Provenance: From the distinguished collection of Delmer and Mary Lou Daves. American actress Mary Lou Daves began her career in Hollywood as Mary Lou Lender in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Her work on the silver screen included numerous films, and it was her time on the 1938 Harold Lloyd comedy "Professor Beware" where she met and subsequently married the budding film director, Delmer Daves. As both writer and director, Daves would go on to contribute his talents to movies such as "Destination Tokyo, starring Cary Grant and John Garfield, "Dark Passage," starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in 1947, and "Broken Arrow," starring James Stewart in 1950. The Hollywood couple were married for 39 years until the latter's death in 1977.