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1960s Large Faux Stacked Shakespeare Book Kids Table John Dickinson for Drexel
By Drexel
Located in Hyattsville, MD
series. Three large stacked Shakespeare books make up the tabletop, with the middle book having a pull
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Oak

The Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare - an illustrated portfolio
Located in Middletown, NY
Shakespeare. Easthampton, Massachusetts: Cheloniidae Press, 1990. Printed to mark the 10th anniversary of
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Late 20th Century American Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Gold Leaf

Ltd Edition Stewart Linford William Shakespeare Metamorphic Library Steps Chair
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in GB
/150 Steward Linford William Shakespeare Metamorphic library steps armchair made from Historic Oak and
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20th Century English Victorian Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Oak

"Double Bill" Aaron Bohrod, Pun Humor, Magic Realism, Shakespeare, Theater
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book
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1990s Realist Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Board, Oil

Collection Leather Bound Library Book Set Thirteen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Shakespeare / The Cambridge text. Each book is in good condition. Minor wear consistent with age / use. Each
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20th Century Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Paper, Leather

Middle Age Aint That Bad. (Retiree Reading a Book)
By David Rosen (b.1912)
Located in Surfside, FL
characters like Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rosen's close-up portraits of historical and literary figures
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20th Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Pre-Raphaelites by Sandra Forty Hardcover Book 1st Ed. 1997
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The Pre-Raphaelites by Sandra Forty Hardcover Book. Title: The Pre-Raphaelites Publisher: Barnes
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Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Paper

"The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot" - Children's Book
By Alice and Martin Provensen
Located in Miami, FL
their first job, illustrating The Fireside Book of Folk Songs.[5] They illustrated several Little Golden
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1980s American Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Board, Gouache

Hungarian Modernist Judaica Etching Print Teffilin, Jewish Rabbi in Prayer
By Janos Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
film director and teacher. Hungary's foremost graphic artist and book illustrator. Born in Szeged, he
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1990s Expressionist Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Etching

Hungarian Modernist Judaica Etching Print Kiddush, Jewish Rabbi at Shabbat Feast
By Janos Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
teacher. Hungary's foremost graphic artist and book illustrator. Born in Szeged, he was the storyboard
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1990s Expressionist Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Etching

Male Nude Desert Landscape Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
England through his teenage and young adult years, including an acting stint with the Shakespeare Company
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1970s Realist Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Silver Gelatin

Male Nude Beach Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
England through his teenage and young adult years, including an acting stint with the Shakespeare Company
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1970s Realist Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Silver Gelatin

Pair of Rare John Dickinson Stacked Books End Tables
By Drexel, John Dickinson
Located in Chicago, IL
Drexel's Et Cetera collection. Three large Shakespeare books make up the tabletop, with the middle book
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Metal

Ulysses by James Joyce, First Authorized American Edition, 1934
By James Joyce
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
her publishing house Shakespeare and Company. Ulysses was first published in book form by Shakespeare
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1930s American Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Paper

Much Ado About Nothing, Cover for The American Weekly
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
from “Much Ado About Nothing,” this illustration is from Pogany’s “Beauties of Shakespeare” cover
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20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

The Winter's Tale, Cover for The American Weekly
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
from “The Winter's Tale,” this illustration is from Pogany’s “Beauties of Shakespeare” cover series for
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1940s Other Art Style Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cover for The American Weekly
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“Beauties of Shakespeare” cover series for the magazine, this illustration depicts a scene from The Merry
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20th Century Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Cymbeline, Cover for The American Weekly
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
from “Cymbeline,” this illustration is from Pogany’s “Beauties of Shakespeare” cover series for the
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20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Board, Mixed Media

Gold, An Illustrated History, First Edition
By Vincent Buranelli
Located in valatie, NY
edition hardcover with dust jacket. 221 pp. A book on the history and the love of gold. Illustrated are
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20th Century American Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Paper

Audrey Hepburn Supine Reading on Couch, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
by Shakespeare and Shaw. Image size is 22" x 22" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Nude Study Ink Wash Drawing Painting by Robert Cami
Located in Atlanta, GA
-president of the "Trait" and the committee of the French Illustrated Book, and chevalier of the Legion of
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Ink

Audrey Hepburn Supine Reading on Couch, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
by Shakespeare and Shaw. Image size is 10" x 10" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn Supine Reading on Couch, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
by Shakespeare and Shaw. Image size is 16" x 16" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater Lounges, Arms Back, Smiling, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater Lounges, Arms Back, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image size is 22" x 22
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image size is 16" x 16
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image size is 10" x 10
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater Lounges, Arms Back, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater Lounges, Arms Back, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater Lounges, Arms Back, Smiling, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn in Striped Sweater Lounges, Arms Back, Smiling, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Untitled - Screen Print by Bengt Lindström - 1970s
By Bengt Lindström
Located in Roma, IT
prepare the scenography for Shakespeare's "King Lear". On this theme he exhibited in Barcelona at the Sala
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1970s Contemporary Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Screen

Audrey in Striped Sweater Reads, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey in Striped Sweater Reads, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Audrey in Striped Sweater Reads, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
alone on the floor while reading classical drama "with heavy helpings of Shaw and Shakespeare." Image
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1950s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Giclée

Planches de Salut
By Louis Marcoussis
Located in London, GB
Numbered Book on Japon Imperial paper, including a Suite of 13 Hand Signed and Numbered Etchings on Japan
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1930s Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Color

"Nuit d'été (Summer's Night)" Lithograph, Colors, Linear Figures on Black Ground
By Marc Chagall
Located in Detroit, MI
as easily be identified as a scene from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" especially as the
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Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Rag Paper, Lithograph

"Waterloo Volunteers" From the suite "History of England"
Located in San Francisco, CA
whole book is a splendid assertion that craftsmen still exist and cannot be killed by materialism. A few
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Late 20th Century Romantic Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Etching

The Balcony (Drawing for Plate I, Planches de Salut)
By Louis Marcoussis
Located in London, GB
signature “1930”. It is a preparatory drawing for plate I of Planches de Salut, a book of 13 etchings
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1930s Cubist Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Pencil

"Hobo" Book
Located in Leeds, GB
A very rare book which tells a story about an Aberdeen Scottie dog called Hobo. Pp 100 Signed
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1940s English Vintage Shakespeare Book

"Hobo" Book
"Hobo" Book
H 8.43 in W 6.7 in D 0.56 in
Rare John Dickinson Stacked Books Table
By Drexel, John Dickinson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare stacked books table designed by John Dickinson and manufactured by Drexel. The middle book has
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Naugahyde, Wood

Rare John Dickinson Stacked Books Table
Rare John Dickinson Stacked Books Table
H 20.5 in W 31.5 in D 25.5 in
Complete Set of Shakespeare's Works Printed in Miniature Books
Located in North Miami, FL
miniature leather bound Shakespeare classics. Individual book size width 1.3in, height 2in, Depth varies, as
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20th Century Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Wood, Paper

Vintage Drexel Book Table
By Drexel
Located in Annville, PA
A very unusual Vintage Drexel Book Table featuring leather bound and decorative faux books on a
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1960s American Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Leather, Oak

Vintage Drexel Book Table
Vintage Drexel Book Table
H 20 in W 36 in D 22 in
Artful Italian Metal Stacked Book End Table
Located in North Miami, FL
PRICED TO SELL.... This painted tole metal stacked book table features many of the greats
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20th Century Italian Vintage Shakespeare Book

Middle Age Aint That Bad. (Retiree Reading a Book)
By David Rosen (b.1912)
Located in Surfside, FL
characters like Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rosen's close-up portraits of historical and literary figures
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20th Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Canvas, Oil

ViNTAGE ASSORTMENT OF FAUX BOOK FRONTS FOR BOOKCASES, HIDDEN DOORS AND DISPLAY
By Bevan Funnell Ltd.
Located in GB
faux book fronts for bookcases and display This is a nice suite of faux book fronts, they came from
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20th Century English Victorian Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Wood

Hungarian Modernist Judaica Etching Print Teffilin, Jewish Rabbi in Prayer
By Janos Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
film director and teacher. Hungary's foremost graphic artist and book illustrator. Born in Szeged, he
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1990s Expressionist Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Etching

Hungarian Modernist Judaica Etching Print Kiddush, Jewish Rabbi at Shabbat Feast
By Janos Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
teacher. Hungary's foremost graphic artist and book illustrator. Born in Szeged, he was the storyboard
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1990s Expressionist Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Etching

Leonor Fini - Shakespeare - The Tempest - Handsigned - 22 Lithographs
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Shakespeare - The Tempest 22 Original lithographs Edition 200 ex. ; One of 10 copies
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1960s Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Lithograph

4 Antique Miniature Books Little Webster Dictionary Shakespeare Talfourd Blair
Located in Dayton, OH
, produced by the Tiny Book & Novelty Co; Shakespeare’s Hamlet, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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20th Century Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Leather, Paper

Collection Gilt Leather Bound Library Book Set /Ten
Located in Tarry Town, NY
A collection of leather bound library book set of ten pieces: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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20th Century Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Leather, Paper

"Ulysses" Book by James Joyce, First American Edition, circa 1934
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and later published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922
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1930s Vintage Shakespeare Book

Pair of Bronze Clad Monkey Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Heavy pair of bronze clad bookends with a monkey backed up to the book "Hamlet" by William
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Late 20th Century American Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Bronze Clad Monkey Bookends
Pair of Bronze Clad Monkey Bookends
H 6.5 in W 8.5 in D 4.75 in
"Max II, " Illustrated Cat Portrait, Signed Proof Print
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
book reappeared in 1977 as "Max" in this signed proof print by Paul Davis. A highly successful and
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1970s Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Lithograph

Large Collection of Books Including Many Sets of Leatherbounds
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large and impressive Book Collection in very good condition. Many with fine marbleized and
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20th Century American Classical Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Leather, Paper

Carborundum Modern Abstract Etching
By Max Papart
Located in Soquel, CA
Shakespeare , Rabelais , Montaigne , English and American literature. In 1933, Max Papart settled in Paris
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Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Etching, Laid Paper, Watercolor

Abstract Oval Screenprint
By Max Papart
Located in Soquel, CA
Shakespeare , Rabelais , Montaigne , English and American literature. In 1933, Max Papart settled in Paris
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Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

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Ink, Screen, Laid Paper

Abstract Oval Screenprint
Abstract Oval Screenprint
H 32 in W 24 in D 0.25 in
John Dickinson Stacked Books End Table
By Drexel, John Dickinson
Located in Fulton, CA
Scarce John Dickinson Shakespeare stacking books end table. Center book drawer with bookmark as
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Oak, Naugahyde, Resin

John Dickinson Stacked Books End Table
John Dickinson Stacked Books End Table
H 20 in W 31.38 in D 25.5 in
William Shakespeare Bronze sculpture
Located in London, GB
thought with a book, classical of Shakespeare decor. The sculpture has aged beautiful, with a dark patina
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20th Century European Vintage Shakespeare Book

Materials

Bronze

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Vintage Shakespeare Book For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the vintage shakespeare book you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. Find Expressionist versions now, or shop for Expressionist creations for a more modern example of these cherished works. Finding the perfect vintage shakespeare book may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 20th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add a vintage shakespeare book to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of black, gray, beige, brown and more. There have been many interesting vintage shakespeare book examples over the years, but those made by Mark Shaw, Janos Kass, Louis Marcoussis, Max Papart and David Rosen (b.1912) are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Frequently made by artists working in digital print, giclée print and inkjet print, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Vintage Shakespeare Book?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a vintage shakespeare book in our inventory may begin at $39 and can go as high as $28,000, while the average can fetch as much as $1,500.