The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text of Edmund Malone, including the latest revisions :. with a life, glossarial notes, an index, and one hundred and seventy illustrations ... /. edited by A. J. Valpy.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1848
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3256489.11
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.11. frontis., plates ;. 18 cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: nineteenth-century bookplate of Wynter Thomas Blathwayt [= Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)] with circular belt design, motto 'Virtute et Veritate' and central eagle, tipped in over earlier bookplate; manuscript ownership inscription added to alter bookplate to 'W. E. Blathwayt, from Wynter Thomas Blathwayt, Apr. 10. 1880' [= Wynter Edward Blathwayt, (1859-1920)] Binding: nineteenth-century tan leather over boards; gilt triple fillet border on upper and lower covers; gold tooling to spine; gold tooled board edges; gilt edges; red leather spine label with 'Shakespeare' and volume number lettered in gold; brown leather spine label with volume details; comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854) Edmond Malone (1741-1812) Thomas Starling Henry George Bohn (1796-1884)