Shelfmark
Go.4.04(03)
Author
Title
The true tragedy of Richard the Third; to which is appended the Latin play of Richardus Tertius, by Dr. Thomas Legge. Both anterior to Shakespeare's drama. With an introduction and notes by Barron Field, Esq..
Physical description
ix, 166 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Shakespeare Society Publications ; no. 21)
Note
Title page verso and last page: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert".
Note
Issued with other Shakesperean plays, shelfmarks: Go.4.04(01)-(04).
Note
?Reprint of 16th-century edition: "The true tragedie of Richard the Third ... London Printed by Thomas Creede, and are to be sold by William Barley ... 1594.".
Citation/references note
Amyot, A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays (London, 1853), v. 4
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 King Richard III.
Added entry--name
Field, Barron, 1786 - 1846 editor.
Added entry--name
Legge, Thomas, 1535 - 1607 Richardus Tertius.
Added entry--name
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
Added entry--name
Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B51025