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Shakespeare's Hamlet / facsimilied from the edition printed at London in the year 1603, by Edmund William Ashbee.

Accession number
PML 5267
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London : For private circulation only, 1866.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A facsimile of STC 22275.
Only 31 copies issued; this is no. 10.
Description
62. [1] leaves : facsim. ; (8vo)
Provenance
2 ms. notes on 2nd fly-leaf read: "I certify that the impression of this facsimile of Hamlet has been strictly limited by me to fifty copies and that the plates have been removed from the stones," signed E.W. Ashbee. "This day, nineteen copies of this work have been destroyed in our presence, thirty one selected copies only being preserved," signed John Tuckett and E.W. Ashbee, dated October 22nd 1866. Beneath in manuscript "Number Four," signed J.O.H. [i.e. James O. Halliwell]; The ms. note on 1st fly-leaf reads: "The first page is in my desk" signed H.H.V. From the Theodore Irwin and Pierpont Morgan collections.
Binding
3/4 moroccan leather.
Classification
Department