Shelfmark
Go.4.02(03)
Author
Uniform title
[Wit and science]
Title
The moral play of Wit and Science, and early poetical miscellanies. From an unpublished manuscript. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1848..
Physical description
xii, 128 p. and [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Shakespeare society. Publications ; no. 37)
Note
Original manuscript in the British Library (Add. MS 15233, folios 11-27).
Note
Includes explanatory notes.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., Printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Rupert Street, Haymarket.".
With note
Issued with other works, shelfmarks: Go.4.02(01)-(02).
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 2"; "Coventry mysteries. Wit & Wisdom. Wit & Science."; "Lond. 1841."). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500.
Added entry--name
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
B50979