The complete works of William Shakespeare : the text and order of the first folio with quarto variants & a choice of modern readings noted marginally: to which are added Pericles and the first quartos of six of the plays with three plays of doubtful authorship: also the poems according to the original quartos and octavos / the Nonesuch text established MCMXXIX by Herbert Farjeon with a new introduction by Ivor Brown.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1953
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085737
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. ; 23 cm. Pencil number on rear pastedown in each vol.: v. 1: "5"; v. 2: "4"; v. 3: "3"; v. 4: "2". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter brown cloth, marbled brown cloth over boards; gilt lettered spines.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), author Ivor John Carnegie Brown (1891 - 1974), author Herbert Farjeon (1887-1945), editor