The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. With a life, and glossary, and fifty-three illustrations. In eight volumes.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1838
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 3226271
Summary
Shakespeare miniature bookcase
Bibliographic description
8 v. : ill., port ; 11 cm. Imperfect: wants v.2. Provenance: (v.1 only) nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: John Kelly Holdsworth; inscribed beneath "Mary Powell from her mat[?] aunt [?] Holdsworth July 1907" [i.e. Mary Hilda Burnaby Pennyman, née Powell (d.1924), m.1915, J.B. Pennyman]. Binding: miniature wooden box, a bookcase in shape of stage, with gold tooled pediment, lettered 'Shakspeare'; volumes in publisher's purple cloth (faded), gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Charles Symmons (1749-1826)