Shelfmark
Gn.5.01 - Gn.5.08, Gn.5.22
Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616
Collective uniform title
Works
Title
Bell's edition of Shakespeare's plays, as they are now performed at the Theatres Royal in London; regulated from the prompt books of each house by permission; with notes critical and illustrative; by the authors of the dramatic censor.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Shakespeare's plays
Edition
[The second edition]
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for John Bell, near Exeter Exchange in the Strand, and C. Etherington at York.; MDCCLCCIIII. [1774]
Physical description
5 v. in 7, plates : ports. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Note
"Authors of Dramatic censor" = Francis Gentleman and others.
Note
The volumes' title pages are engraved.
Note
Each play has a separate letterpress title page, dated 1773.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of the Lindsay family, with motto “Astra, castra, numen, lumen, munimen” on front pastedown. Armorial bookplate of the Crawford Library of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, on front endpaper recto.
Binding
18th-century brown Spanish calfskin over pasteboards. Covers undecorated. Spine with no raised bands; gilt tools and titling ("Bell's Shakespeare"; "vol [number]"). Textblock rounded and dyed yellow. Endpapers of marbled paper (pastedowns and facing flyleaves); three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Ms. notes in pencil about price of set of volumes ("9 vols £2/107-") on front flyleaves.
Subject
English drama (Tragedy).
Subject
Historical drama, English.
Added entry--name
Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay (), 1847 - 1913 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bell, John, 1745 - 1831 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Etherington, C., active 1789 - ? bookseller.
Added entry--name
Gentleman, Francis, 1728 - 1784 contributor.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B46929