{"product_id":"1449300-1904-shakespeare","title":"1449300 1904 Shakespeare.  Shakespeare's Heroines.  Illust. by Paget.","description":"10139. \u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHAKESPEARE’S HEROINES, 1904.  Anna Jameson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated by Walter Paget.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003eSHAKESPEARE’S HEROINES, 1904, IN THE ELUSIVE PUBLISHER’S DUST JACKET.  Jameson, Anna; [Shakespeare, William]; Paget, Walter (illustrator). Shakespeare’s Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton, [1904].  Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: 308. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in various colors and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original mauve pictorial dust jacket decorated in gilt. Title page printed in black and red, text illustrated with six color plates and dozens of half-tone plates and vignettes. Gift inscription to front pastedown: “To Elsie from May \/ June 30th 1909.” Shallow chipping and shelfwear to jacket. Deluxe Edwardian edition of Anna Jameson’s Shakespeare’s Heroines, first published in 1832 under the title Characteristics of Women. Jameson’s book became a cornerstone of both popular Shakespeare criticism and Victorian conduct literature, going through multiple editions in her lifetime, and in the decades following her death in 1860. In her detailed comparative study of the qualities of Shakespeare’s women, Jameson issued a pointed critique of contemporary standards of femininity: “A woman constituted like Portia, and placed in this age and in the actual state of society would find society armed against her . . . immolated in fire to that multitudinous Moloch termed Opinion.” This is the first edition to feature Walter Paget’s idealized illustrations, including six color plates depicting Rosalind, Portia, Ophelia, Desdemona, Cleopatra, and Constance. A fine copy, exceptional in the elusive publisher’s dust jacket.\u003c\/div\u003e  Fine","brand":"1904","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033787703469,"sku":"10139","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/products\/10139.jpg?v=1636224924","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1449300-1904-shakespeare","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}