Shelfmark
Go.4.09(03)
Author
Title
Fools and jesters : with a reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of ninnies. 1608. With an introduction and notes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1842..
Physical description
xx, 67 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Shakespeare Society ; no. 10)
Note
Introduction signed: J.P.C. [i.e. John Payne Collier].
Note
With reproduction of original t.p.: A Nest of Ninnies, Simply of themselves without Compound ... By Robert Armin. London, Printed by T.E. for Iohn Deane. 1608.
Note
Title page verso and last page of each play: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert".
With note
Issued with Barnabe Rich's novels and Pierce Penniless, shelfmarks: Go.4.09(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 9"; "Early prose and political tracts. I."; "Lond. 1846.") and modern shelf label ("SHA 822"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Fools and jesters.
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
B51039