Shelfmark
Krr.3.46(04)
Author
Title
The merchant of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. By Shakespeare..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for J. Wenman, No 144, Fleet-Street; and sold by all other booksellers in town and country, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]
Physical description
20 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note
Possibly issued with 'The devil to pay' by Charles Coffey.
Note
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Note
Printed in two columns.
Note
Woodcut title page vignette; woodcut head- and tail-piece.
Note
The frontispiece plate is entitled "Mr. Macklin in the character of Shylock" and was "Published by I. Wenman 1st June 1777".
Note
Signatures: A-B⁴ C².
Citation/references note
ESTC, T39238
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in this item.
Binding
Sammelband. Late 18th- or early 19th-century half speckled calf and brown speckled or marbled paper over pasteboard. Spine rounded, divided into six large compartments by transverse gilt single fillets; second compartment from head of spine has title-label with gilt lettering; false headbands of alternating red and green thread. Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers comprising at both sides a single bifolium of laid paper, forming a pastedown with free endpaper; undecorated.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the engraved plate.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 37 other items, shelfmarks Krr.3.46(01) - (03), (05) - (38).
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's code on upper endpaper recto of sammelband.
Subject
English drama (Comedy) 18th century.
Subject
Venice Drama.
Added entry--name
Wenman, Joseph, ? - -1790 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50728