Shakespeare's Environment signed Charlotte Carmichael Stopes 1918

STOPES, Charlotte Carmichael. Shakespeare’s Environment. (signed with a signed / lined card)
 
London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1918.
 
Second issue (with additions and frontispiece). xii, 369 pp., with frontispiece after Estella Canziani. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine; spine gilt faded, boards clean; internally very good, with several leaves remaining uncut, suggesting little use. Very good or better. 
 
Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper: “To Mrs Hicks / from her affectionate friend / the author / C. C. Stopes.” Loosely inserted is a signed card by Stopes, “Charlotte Carmichael Stopes”, quoting Shakespeare: “Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.I.).
 
A later issue of Stopes’ study of Shakespeare, incorporating additional material and issued with a frontispiece. Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a noted Shakespearean scholar and an active participant in late-19th and early-20th century debates surrounding Shakespeare’s life and authorship. The book is rare signed, but is particularly so with the lined card.