- Quarto, tan cloth titled in red on spine & in red with device stamped in red on front cover. The covers are lightly bumped & the spine & extremities are slightly faded. There is an area of light staining to the bottom corner of the rear cover. 25 & [1] pages plus [4] sample pages & 4 sample plates, 3 of them in color, with order form bound in & 2nd order form & mailing envelope laid in. There is offsetting to the top edge of the front endpaper. Good.

Laid in is a one-page promotional letter from George Macy, Director of the Limited Editions Club, personalized to a Dr. Maclyn F. Baker, dated November 14, 1939. The letter urges Baker to order a copy of the new Bruce Rogers Shakespeare, describing it as "the most ambitious of all plans to illustrate Shakespeare; the text should be indispensable for the proper reading of Shakespeare; and the beauties of the appearance are evidence of the genius of the greatest living designer of books...."

THEATER; PLAYWRIGHT; ELIZABETHAN; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; TYPOGRAPHER; BOOK DESIGNER; BRUCE ROGERS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLATES; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; PROSPECTUS; GEORGE MACY; HERBERT FARJEON.