The Shakespeare 400 by Linda Welch

Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, 23 Sandy's most popular painter and book artist, Linda Welch, celebrates the legacy of arguably the greatest playwright in the English language with this remarkable set of 37 of his plays, poems and sonnets—each re-bound in painted covers with matching slipcases. Linda's work is always popular. She creates one-of-a-kind, abstract, layered, mixed media books that incorporate oil painting, collage, screen printing, found book pages and wax. Linda tells us, "In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, I have reconstructed this complete set of Shakespeare's plays. The Riverside edition is a large, heavy, coffee table book; offering all the plays, poems and sonnets along with plenty of history, illustrations, and notes in one volume. By folding and restructuring the pages, I took this chunky, weighty volume, and reduced it to small individual books. Thirty seven books in all. The plays are meant to stand alone; to be read