Accession number
PML 5117
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1635.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: A-H⁴ I².
In the size and shape of the other Shakespeare quartos, but this is an octavo with vertical chain lines.
In the size and shape of the other Shakespeare quartos, but this is an octavo with vertical chain lines.
Description
[66] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889); Sir William Tite (1798-1873), inscription: "This book was offered to me unbound by Mr. Halliwell in 1863 for £9.9.0...I subsequently bought it by [??] at Sothebys for £10.10.0 and caused it to be bound by Bedford in 1864. W. Tite, 20 Oct 1864. Binding 30/.," his sale, 18 May 1874, lot 2769 for £6.10.0; Edward G. Asay (b. 1825); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Brown morocco by Francis Bedford for Tite.
Classification
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