Shelfmark
Go.4.16
Author
Title
Memoirs of the principal actors in the plays of Shakespeare. By J. Payne Collier ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1846..
Physical description
xxxviii, [2], 296, 12 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society)
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".
Note
Includes a report of the Council of the Shakespeare Society, dated 27 April 1846.
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 16"; "Lives of the actors in the plays of Shakespeare"; "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
Subject
Subject
Actors England Biography.
Subject
Theater England History.
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
B51053