[AFRO-AMERICANA] West Indian Illustrations of Shakespeare.
Georgetown, Demerara [i.e. British Guiana]: James Thomson at The Argosy Office; and London: John Haddon & Co., n.d. [1870]. First edition. Original publisher's cloth, upper cover blocked in black, titling in gilt. 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (27 x 34 cm), title and fifty uncolored lithographic plates. Front cover detached and bumped, free endpaper detached, extreme fore-edge a bit bumped, generally a clean copy internally.

An extremely scarce work of satirical humor based on Shakespearian quotations, illustrated with supposed scenes of Guyanese life. The date is taken from OCLC, though the one citation we can find in the literature suggests 1885, without stating a source for this date. In any case, a rare and unusual Caribbean imprint and quite rare (the only example we find at auction is one we sold in 2009).

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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