The family Shakspeare :. in six volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. /. By Thomas Bowdler, esq. F.R.S. & S.A.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1873
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3239383
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v. ;. 18 cm. Binding: Hardback, leather spine and corners, marbled paper over board covers, gold lettering, marbable paper endpapers and marbled page edges. Provenance: Inscription in each volume - "To An???[illegible] on her birthday from her Grandmother Jane EW ????[illegible] June 21st 1885".
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825)