The works of Shakespear. In six volumes.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1723 - 1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3207500.6
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 6, plates : ill. ; 4to. Dated 1723 on title page but issue with set in 1725. Incribed in contemporary hand at head of free endpaper: "You must". Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled, blind panel stamp with corner pieces on covers. Sewn on three raised cords (with two additional false raised bands). Blind-tooled board edges. Gilt-tooled on spine, vol. numbers direct in gilt on spine, brown leather spine labels (mostly wanting), lettered "Shakespear's works". Text-block edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Jacob Tonson I (1655-1736)