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Shelfmark

Krr.3.41 (Copy 1)

Additional shelfmark

Krr.3.42 (Copy 2)

Author

Uniform title

[King Lear]

Title

King Lear / by William Shakespeare.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : New York : J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. ; E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1935.

Physical description

xxvi, [2], 172 p. ; 14 cm.

Series statement

(New Temple Shakespeare)

Note

With series title page. At head: "The New Temple Shakespeare"; at foot: "Edited by M. R. Ridley, M.A."

Note

Series title page, title-page, and preliminaries included in pagination. Final page not paginated but taken as so.

Note

Publisher's red cloth binding; gilt stamp with theatrical imagery on upper cover. Spine with gilt titling.

Note

Includes notes and glossary.

Note

Illustrations by Eric Gill.

Note

[Copy 1]: This copy reprinted 1957.

Note

[Copy 2]: This copy reprinted 1940, 1945.

Note

[Copy 1]: Publication date and statement of manufacture from title-page verso: "Made in Great Britain at The Aldine Press, Letchworth, Herts".

Note

[Copy 2]: Publication date and statement of manufacture from title-page verso: "Printed in Great Britain by Morrison & Gibb Ltd., London and Edinburgh".

Provenance

[Copy 2]: Ms. note on upper pastedown: "G. Byam Shaw / S.M.T. 1959 Stratford-upon-Avon".

Copy-specific note

[Copy 2]: Ms. notes in [?]Glen Byam Shaw's hand (and another hand?) throughout with annotations, underlinings, corrections and strikethroughs consistent with use as a performance copy (e.g. on p. 5, Lear's phrase "Go to, go to" amended to "How, how Cordelia"); the emendations match those in Copy 1, Krr.3.41.

Copy-specific note

[Copy 1]: Ms. notes in [?]Glen Byam Shaw's hand throughout with annotations, underlinings, corrections and strikethroughs consistent with use as a performance copy (e.g. on p. 5, Lear's phrase "Go to, go to" amended to "How, how Cordelia"); manuscript note on free upper endpaper recto also in G.B.S.'s hand: "59 cuts" (with "12" written below).

Subject

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Shaw, Glen Byam director, former owner.

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J. M. Dent & Sons publisher.

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E. P. Dutton publisher.

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Aldine Press printer.

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England London.

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United States New York New York City.

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England Letchworth.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B50705
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