The Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Preface by Robert Graves with drawings by Clarke Hutton. Folio, 34cm, pp.[xvi],154 + 40 illustrations, portfolio, London: The Swallow Press, Maitland & Thorold Publishing, 1975.
Number XVI of XL (300) copies specially bound with an original drawing by Clarke Hutton mounted and contained within a separate folder. Designed by Edward Burrett and signed by him, Clarke Hutton and Robert Graves. Handset in Monotype Perpetua and printed on Antique Laid paper by W.E. Baxter Ltd, with the 40 Clarke Hutton illustrations inserted and printed by lithography on different coloured papers. Full niger morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titled and blocked in gold, slipcase, portfolio and endpapers in gold and purple to a design by Clarke Hutton. A fine copy with the prospectus loosely inserted.
An attractive book with the sonnets printed one to a page, though experience suggests that not all copies were bound up. The binding of the standard copies was occasionally as the special, more usually quarter mauve cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown buckram sides. Sets of unbound sheets are not uncommon.
