Shelfmark
Kb.4.14
Author
Title
The dawn of British literature ; Shakespeare / by S. P. B. Mais, M.A.
Varying form of title
Cover title: Shakespeare and the dawn of British literature.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London?] : The Richards Press, [1928?]
Physical description
64, 64 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.
Series statement
(Modern pictorial library)
Note
Cover title: Shakespeare and the dawn of British literature.
Note
No collective title; two works bound together as issued, each with separate title page, half-title and colophon at foot of final page.
Note
Includes: Shakespeare.
Note
Publisher's dark green cloth case binding ; cover and spine titles stamped in black.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig's annotated copy, with note recording that the book was purchased in Paris, December 1931, "as a sample of the kind of 'series' which might be made of our Theatrical history"; annotations include comments comparing Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown, and small ink sketch at foot of final page of first work in volume.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted Elizabethan portrait extracted from another work; press cutting of a letter to the editor about Hamlet from Gerald Lawrence [n.d.] laid down inside lower cover.
Subject
Subject
English literature Middle English, 1100-1500.
Subject
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46631