Shelfmark
Go.4.04(02)
Author
Title
The first sketches of the second and third parts of King Henry the Sixth. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1843..
Physical description
xl, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 15)
Note
With reproductions of the original title-pages: The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey ... London, Printed by Thomas Creed, for Thomas Millington ... 1594. and The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke ... Printed at London, by P. S. for Thomas Millington ... 1595.
Note
The 2 parts form the basis of Shakespeare's Henry VI, pts. 2 and 3. The authorship and their relation to his version are much disputed.
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(01)-(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
Henry, 1640 - 1660 VI, King of England, Drama.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
Added entry--name
Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
King Henry the Sixth
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51023