Shakespeare, William MACBETH (ILLUSTRATED BY SALVADOR DALI) First Edition, Hardcover Octavo,

First Edition, Hardcover Octavo, decorative paper covered boards in a black slip-case (illustrated by Salvador Dali on the front slip-case, with some wear along the sides and corners).

Titling to the spine, head/heel and corners are a bit bumped and rubbed, also with some wear along the edges.

Illustrated beautifully with nine black and white illustrations by surrealist painter Salvador Dali, the text is from Professor George Lyman Kittredge’s edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Black front/back pastedowns with a book-plate on the front pastedown, previous owner’s inscription on the front end-paper.

One of the scarcest books illustrated by Dali, overall, the book is very sturdy and is in very good condition.

Salvador Dali - was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dali is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.”

Macbeth - Once again we are face to face with the Dali who creates illustrations for some of the great works of universal literature where, in addition to assimilating the texts that particularly interest and attract him, he also goes deeper into his own world and iconography. His personal universe, his thoughts, his evolution are clear to see in these illustrations. The text enriches the image and the latter gives a new perspective to the text, thereby producing a perfect symbiosis that arouses our imagination. Furthermore, Dali doesn’t stop at doing the illustrations but also follows the publishing process very closely and provides his comments until just before the work is taken to be printed.