<DIV>John Austen's hauntingly illustrated edition, published in 1922, remains unparalleled among all other treatments of <I>Hamlet</I> to this day. An adherent of the Aesthetic Movement in England that included Aubrey Beardsley and James A. M. Whistler, Austen shifted to a much more commercial style later in his career, and <I>Hamlet</I> is one of the few artifacts of the early pinnacle of his creativity. Black-line plates and ornamental illustrations throughout.</DIV>