The sonnets of William Shakespeare with a Latin translation by Alfred Thomas Barton / edited, with a prefatory note, by John Harrower.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254106
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi, [2], 155, [1] p. ; 4to. Copy no. 30. Pencil number on front free endpaper verso: "198". Pencil number on second front free endpaper verso: "9002" and price (crossed through then erased, illegible). Pencil code on rear free endpaper: "AR/A". Provenance: Pencil inscription on second front free endpaper in the handwriting of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966): "From Dick Briscoe / Christmas 1937 / Anglesey Abbey". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'Thomas Thorp, / Bookseller, / 5 Old Bond Street, / London, W.1.'. Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; gilt tooling; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Sonnets of Shakespeare'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London'.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), author Barton, Alfred Thomas, translator Harrower, John, author