The works of William Shakespeare /. edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke ... In four volumes.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1883
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3074588
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v., plates :. ill. ;. 8vo. Vol. 1 with a letter laid in from Gilbert Hurst to "My dear Frank", written from Kings College, Cambridge and dated June 15 1893; ticket to Eton Speech Day, June 4th, 1890; three newspaper cuttings, one relating to Gilbert Hurst, barrister, and a court case; an obituary of Edmond Warre, headmaster of Eton (23 Jan. 1920); cutting from Modern Society, Feb. 10 1906 relating to the death of Miss Evans, formerly dame at Eton College; a review of The Tempest, 2nd Feb. 1921 and a pencil list of the characters in the play, a cast list of Much Sdo at the Victoria Hall, Ripon, (Apr. 5 1902), and a newspaper advertisement for Herbert Tree's production of Midsummer' Night's Dream, April 1911. Vol. 2 with a Times review of Twelfth Night 10 April 1910, and two letters referring from Dec. 1909 referring to a girls' school production of the same play. Vol. 3 with a programme from Herbert Tree's production of King Henry VIII, Nov. 1910. Vol. 4 a programme of a reading of Macbeth at the training college in Ripon, Nov. 1 1901; transcript of a sermon by Bp. Boyd Carpenter in connection with the Shakespeare tricentenary commemmoration, Guardian May 4, 1916; programme of Othello Jan 26 1912 in Ripon Town Hall (with pencil annotations). Binding: full tree calf, gold-rolled perimeter border on boards; gold-tooled on spines; spine labels: Shakespeare Cowden Clarke I [-IV]; and contents label for each volume; marbled endpapers and edges. Binder's stamp: Bickers & son, Leicester Sqr.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Charles Cowden Clark (1787-1877) Mary Victoria Cowden-Clarke, Mrs Charles Cowden Clarke (1809-1898)