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
Lear Drama Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Tragedies.
Added entry--name
Gill, Eric, 1882 - 1940 illustrator.
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Added entry--name
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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Added entry--place
England London.
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United States New York New York City.
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England Letchworth.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50705