Shelfmark
Go.4.04(01)
Author
Title
The first sketch of Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1842..
Physical description
xxxii, 141 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(A supplement to Dodsley's Old plays ; Vol. 4)
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; No. 9)
Note
Reprint of the first quarto, with type facsimile of original t.p.: 'A Most pleasaunt and excellent conceited Comedie, of Syr Iohn Falstaffe, and the merrie Wiues of Windsor ... London, Printed by T. C. for Arthur Iohnson ... 1602'.
Note
Some copies were issued as Shakespeare Society Publication no. 9, some as part of 'A supplement to Dodsley's old plays ...', 1853, v. 4, and others probably as a separate monograph.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert".
With note
Issued with other Shakesperean plays, shelfmarks: Go.4.04(02)-(04).
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 4"; "Merry wives. Henry VI. Richard III. Taming of the Shrew"; "Lond. 1842.-44."). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 Merry wives of Windsor.
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
B50980