Shelfmark
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Main entry--uniform title
Chester plays.
Title
The Chester plays: a collection of mysteries founded upon scriptural subjects, and formerly represented by the trades of Chester at Whitsuntide. Edited by Thomas Wright ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1843-1847..
Physical description
2 v. in 1; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare society ; no. 17, 35)
Note
Title page verso and last page of both volumes: "London; F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, Printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert.".
Note
Pagination: v.1: xxi, [3], 304 p.; v. 2: [4], 241, [1], 12 p..
Note
Includes the "Report of the Council of the Shakespeare Society" dated 26th April 1847, at the end of v.2; pagination not continuous with the plays.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library with label of Macmillan Fund and date "May 1899" on front pastedown of both volumes.
Binding
19th-century red morocco over millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets and roll to form a border; gilt panel with gilt tools at the corners; gilt fillets on board-edges and gilt roll on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, titling ("Shakespeare Society 1"; "The Ches[t]er plays"; "Lond. 1843"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; four flyleaves on the upper end of the textblock and three at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Ms. list of contents of the 19 volumes of the Shakespeare Society on second front flyleaf.
Subject
Chester plays.
Subject
Mysteries and miracle-plays, English.
Subject
English drama Middle English, 1100-1500.
Subject
English drama To 1500.
Added entry--name
Wright, Thomas, 1810 - 1877 editor.
Added entry--name
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
Added entry--name
Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50972