Shakespeare. The first collected edition of the Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare.. A reproduction in exact fac-simile of the famous first folio, 1623, by the newly-discovered process of photo-lithography, executed, by express permission of Lord Ellesmere and the Trustees of the British Museum, from the matchless copies in Bridgewater House and in the National Library, at the suggestion, and under the superintendence of H. Staunton. R.W. Preston, photo-lith
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1866
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3161339
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 303, 88, 91-92, 91-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [i.e.: 399], [1] p. . ill.., port.. . fol. Provenance: Not indigenous. Meade Collection. Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Ink stamp: “Frankleigh House Library”. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Rev. The Honble Sidney Meade [1839-1917] signed ‘CWS’. - Price ‘£55’. Binding: Green calf, raised boards, blind-ruled and decorated, gold-lettered spine, marbled block. – Bands scuffed
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Howard Staunton (1810-1874)