Shelfmark
Go.4.17(01)
Author
Title
Inigo Jones. A life of the architect; by Peter Cunningham, esq. Remarks on some of his sketches for masques and dramas; by J. R. Planché, esq. And five court masques; ed. from the original mss. of Ben Jonson, John Marston, etc., by J. Payne Collier, esq., accompanied by facsimiles of drawings by Inigo Jones; and by a portrait from a painting by Vandyck.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1848..
Physical description
xxi, [3], 148 p., [16] leaves of plates : front. (port.) facsims. (part fold.) ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 39)
Note
The five court masques include: The mask of queens, and The twelfth night's revels, by Ben Jonson; The mountebank's mask, by John Marston; The mask of the twelve months; The mask of the four seasons.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "F. Shoberl, Jun., printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Rupert Street.".
Note
Portrait of Inigo Jones facing title page, painted by Anthony Van Dyck and engraved by William Holl.
With note
Issued with two other works, shelfmarks: Go.4.17(02)-(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 17"; "Inigo Jones. Ben Jonson's conversations. John A Cumber etc."; "Lond. 1848.-51."). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Subject
Masques.
Subject
Drawing 18th century.
Subject
Drawing 19th century.
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Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
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Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599 - 1641 illustrator.
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Holl, William, 1807 - 1871 engraver.
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Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51056