The works of William Shakespeare. / Edited by Howard Staunton. With copious notes, glossary, life, &c. In four volumes.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1864
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124065
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : port. ; 8vo. Ink stains on textblock edges of v. 4. Pencil initials (erased): "F/H/B"[?] and pencil price (erased): "£2.4.0"[?] on front free endpaper verso of v. 1. Ephemera: loosely inserted in v. 2: certificate from Grove Park School, Wrexham: "First Prize for English Subjects awarded to Urban Hanlon Broughton Christmas 1871. J. Pryce-Jones" [i.e. to Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929)]. Provenance: manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper vol. 1: "Urban O'H. Broughton. Xmas. 1873. 1st. Class Gen. Proficiency Languages, English Subjects and Natural Science. Grove Park School Wrexham." [i.e. to Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929)]. 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: Nineteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spines; brown morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Staunton's Shakespeare. / I[-IV].'; green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered with contents of each vol.; gilt rolled board edges; blind rolled turn-ins; marbled textblock edges and endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), author Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874, editor