• Cover artwork for The Merchant of Venice in the Fifth Folio edition featuring the play’s title typography superimposed on a Venetian wood carving of a man reading.
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Merchant of Venice

Merchant of Venice

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þe MOST EXCELLENT Historie of Þe MERCHANT of VENICE, and þe obtaining of Portia by þe choyse of þree chests.

Cover artwork for The Merchant of Venice in the Fifth Folio edition featuring Antonio’s opening meditation on unexplained sadness layered beside a photograph of Gregory Bittar standing on a Venetian bridge.

Cover artwork for The Merchant of Venice in the Fifth Folio edition featuring the courtroom bond trial between Portia, Shylock, and Antonio layered over a softly obscured inherited painting beneath the text, with a reproduced quotation from the Book of Job appearing along the lower margin.

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