Shelfmark
Go.4.15(02)
Author
Title
The school of abuse, containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, &c. by Stephen Gosson. With an introduction regarding the author and his works.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Reprinted for the Shakespeare Society., 1841..
Physical description
xviii, 51 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 2)
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 two other works, shelfmark: Go.4.15(01)-(03).
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 15"; "Early treatises of the stage."; "Lond. 1843.") 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
Theater Moral and ethical aspects.
Subject
Poetry Early works to 1800.
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
B51051