The family Shakespeare, . in ten volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. By Thomas Bowdler, esq. F.R.S. & S.A.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3039238
Summary
Bibliographic description
10 v., plate . 12mo.. Quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards. Old shelf-mark: D.6. Leaflet on decimal coinage, 1919, inside vol.1.. Provenance: Bookplate - Earl of Morley (stuck over earlier plate - ?one of the Countesses of Morley?). In pencil on endleaf of v.1 "Boringdon".
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825)