SHAKESPEARE AND MATERIAL CULTURE

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With ten black and white illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding very slightly cocked, with a touch of bumping to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is creased to the rear panel and otherwise without fading, loss or tears.

"In a period just starting to recognize the allure of consumer goods, this book argues that material culture plays a particularly complex and resonant role in Shakespeare's employment of his audience's imagination" (publisher's blurb).