Shelfmark
Go.4.03(04)
Author
Title
Ralph Roister Doister, a comedy, by Nicholas Udall. And The tragedie of Gorboduc, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville ; with introductory memoirs. Edited by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1847..
Physical description
lxviii, [4], 160 p. ; 23 cm.
Series statement
(Shakespeare Society. Publications ; no. 34)
Note
With facsimile of original title page: The Tragedie of Gorbodvc, whereof three Actes were wrytten by Thomas Nortone, and the two laste by Thomas Sackuyle ... Imprynted at London ... by William Griffith ... l565.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "F. Shoberl, Jun., Printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Rupert Street.".
With note
Issued with other plays, shelfmarks: Go.4.03(01)-(03).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library with label of Macmillan Fund and date "May 1899" on front pastedown.
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 3"; "Patient Grissil. Timon Sir T. More. Ralph Roister Doister"; "Lond. 1841-47."). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Genre/Form
Comedies.
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Norton, Thomas, 1532 - 1584 Gorboduc.
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Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
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Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50976