Quarto. vi, [90]pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 44 engraved plates. Twentieth-century red morocco, small dark green morocco inlays - ivy leaf motif executed in Arts and Crafts style, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G., lettered in gilt to rear lower turn-in: '19 M. R. 04'. Lightly rubbed, sine dulled. Closed tears to frontispiece, title page, and one leaf of text, scattered spotting.

An attractively bound edition of a paean to Shakespeare's female characters; finely illustrated with portraits executed under the direction of notable landscape and figure engraver Charles Heath (1785-1848).

The attractive binding of this copy may perhaps be attributed to Mary Robinson, active in the early twentieth-century and recorded by the periodical Studio (Vol. XXXVI) as having exhibited examples of her work at the eighth edition of the Lyceum Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1906.