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The handsome ‘Stratford Town’ Shakespeare, no. 495 of 1000 copies on Bachelor hand-made paper, edited and with notes by Arthur Henry Bullen (1857–1920).

There was also a deluxe issue of 12 copies printed on vellum. The Shakespeare Head Press was founded by Bullen and Frank Sidgwick expressly to publish this edition of Shakespeare in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press, but went on to issue editions of Yeats, Aphra Behn, and others; after Bullen’s death the press was bought by Basil Blackwell, and Bernard Newdigate was brought in as a designer.

Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 232.

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