Shelfmark
Go.4.14(01)
Title
Illustrations of the fairy mythology of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1845..
Physical description
xxii, 319, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 26)
Note
Title page verso and last page: "Frederick Shoberl, Junior, Printer to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London.".
With note
Issued with Oberon's vision, shelfmark: Go.4.14(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 14"; "Fairy mythology. Oberon's vision."; "Lond. 1845.") 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
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 Midsummer night's dream Sources.
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 Characters Fairies.
Subject
Fairies.
Subject
Romances, English.
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
B51048