• Publication: The TempestPublication Record # 615939
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Date: 1926-11-00
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Price:
  21/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: ix+185
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Cover: The Tempest (1926) • by Arthur Rackham
• Notes:

  Ordinary trade edition
  • Publ date (inferred) and price from brief review 1926-11-25 p5 and publisher advertisements: -- The Observer 1926-11-28 p7 "The Year's Rackham // The Tempest" -- Manchester Guardian -12-01 p14 "Heinemann's Christmas Books" The first advertisement says of this, in contrast to the Edition de luxe: "With 20 full-page colour plates and many decorations by Arthur Rackham. 21s. net."
  • See the Edition de luxe for more information
  • Data from WorldCat: -- "London : Heinemann ; New York : Doubleday, 1926" -- "ix, 185 p. ; 26 cm" Cited records of the UK and US deluxe eds. report xiii+185 pages.
  • Dealers at ABEbooks.com as of 2017-04-29: -- several provide bookseller images that show cover design identical to that of the deluxe ed. -- two give descriptions that confirm page-count ix+185 -- one says of a US copy, "First Trade Edition, published after the signed limited edition."
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 905551353

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Tempest • (1623) • short fiction by William Shakespeare
•  The Tempest • (1926) • interior artwork by Arthur Rackham