Shelfmark
Go.4.19
Author
Title
Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier ... forming a supplemental volume to the works of Shakespeare by the same editor, in eight volumes, octavo.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1852..
Physical description
[2], xxvi, [2], 512 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. (facsim.) ; 22 cm.
Note
Afterwards withdrawn from the Society's publications.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "London: Gilbert and Rivington, printers, St. John's Square.".
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 19"; "Collier's notes and emendations"; "Lond. 1852.") 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 Forgeries Collier.
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 Criticism, Textual.
Added entry--name
Gilbert & Rivington printer.
Added entry--name
Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51065