Shelfmark
Krr.3.29
Author
Uniform title
[Coriolanus]
Title
Select plays from Shakspeare: adapted chiefly for the use of schools, and young persons; with notes from the best commentators. Coriolanus..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by W. Lewis, Finch-Lane; for J. Souter, School Library, 131, Fleet-Street. [Removed from St. Paul's Church Yard.], [1836]
Physical description
[4], 114 p. ; 19 cm.
Note
"Six plays from Shakspeare, of which Coriolanus is one, have been adapted for the use of young persons. The only alterations made are ... omissions ... that could not with propriety be retained in a work designed for youth"-- 'Advertisement', signed: Edward Slater.
Note
Date of publication suggested from 'Advertisement' signed September 1836.
Note
Page 49 misnumbered 433; hereafter pagination continuous to 500 [i.e. p. 114].
Note
Also issued in 1836 as a volume of the six plays (Hamlet, Macbeth, King John, Richard III, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar) together, with collected title-page and additional preface, and without the Advertisement included in this edition (n.b. the pagination errors observed for this copy are also present in these collected editions).
Note
Includes half-title after the Advertisement.
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in the book.
Binding
Late 19th- to early 20th-century brown diaper-grain cloth binding. 'Coriolanus' stamped in gilt on upper cover. Residue of large paper label glued to upper cover.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Tragedies.
Added entry--name
Slater, Edward editor.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50589