Shelfmark
Go.4.17(02)
Author
Title
Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. January, M.DC.XIX..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1842..
Physical description
xxiv, 54, 10 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 8)
Note
Preface signed: David Laing.
Note
"The foot notes ... have been amplified and corrected by ... Mr. J. Payne Collier, and Mr. Peter Cunningham."
Note
Includes Report of the Council of the Shakespeare Society, dated 26th April, 1842.
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, shelfmarks: Go.4.17(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 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
English literature Drama 17th century England.
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Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
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Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51058