Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare ; with designs by Oliver Messel
Contributors: Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978; Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery); Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: B.T. Batsford
Published: 1936
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Romeo and Juliet (Motion picture : 1936)
Other titles: Romeo & Juliet
Notes: Author's name at head of title.

"A Batsford book"--Jacket.

"First published in this edition, October 1936"--Title page verso.

"The illustrations ... are reproduced from the original designs from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film production made in Hollywood in 1936 ..."--Page 7.

Rare Book copy: Inscribed by Maud F. Messel (the illustrator's mother), dated 1936-1937 (Christmas and New Year). Jacket wanting.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full blue goatskin, sewn on five recessed supports; upper cover with gilt fillet frame and floral designs; lower cover with gilt fillet frame; spine with five false raised bands, gilt in compartments; board edges gilt with a pin-dot roll; turn-ins with gilt border of pin-dot rolls and fillet lines around gilt hearts and floral designs; inner joint of blue goatskin; doublure of blue watered silk; free endpapers lined with blue watered silk; all edges gilt; two-color silk endbands; signed "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England" at tail end of upper turn-in.