The beauties of Shakspeare [sic] : regularly selected from each play: with a general index, digesting them under proper heads. By the late Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
Chiswick
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3249297
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii,[2],353, [15]p. ; 16mo. Priced in pencil: 7/6. Provenance: first inscribed "Maria Leycester from her affect friend Lucy Anne Stanley Febry 1st 1815"; beneath in separate hand "Catherine Maria Stanley from her most affect Auntie Novr= 29, 1836" [i.e. given by the above to Catherine Maria Vaughan, née Stanley (d.1899)]; facing "Cath Vaughan"; also inscribed "Stamford, Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]. Pencil text marking in pencil, with an initial annotation, in early nineteenth-century hand. Manuscript quotations at rear. Binding: nineteenth-century diced calf; gilt roll border. (Boards detached; spine completely wanting.)
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Reverend William Dodd (1729-1777)