The complete works of William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215815
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 1350, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ;19cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and a man. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century half grained brown morocco on brown paper over boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers, gilt-top.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) William James Craig (1843-1906)