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 3124065.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 3 ; 8vo. 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: 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 label, gilt lettered: 'Staunton's Shakespeare. / III.'; green morocco spine label, gilt lettered with contents; gilt rolled board edges; blind rolled turn-ins; marbled textblock edges and endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), author Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874, editor