Accession number
PML 253440.1-40
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Published
Glasgow : David Bryce and Son ; London : Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, [1904]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger, based on another issue (40 v. in 20) with general title page in v. [1].
"Dedicated by special permission to Miss Ellen Terry"--Dedication for each play.
"Carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J. Talfourd Blair"--Frontispiece verso of each play.
Printer information from title page verso of each play.
Includes a glossary volume.
"All the volumes in the 'Ellen Terry' series ... can be found in all kinds of bindings randing from cloth with or without onlaid decorative celluloid plaques, to chamois leathers of various colors, finely gilt-stamped calf or beautiful morocco covers of different hues, with colours occasionally deliberately mixed within the same set for better effect"--Bondy, page 114.
Library's copy housed in wooden bookshelf with 5 shelves and set of 2 drawers with brass knob handles.
"Dedicated by special permission to Miss Ellen Terry"--Dedication for each play.
"Carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J. Talfourd Blair"--Frontispiece verso of each play.
Printer information from title page verso of each play.
Includes a glossary volume.
"All the volumes in the 'Ellen Terry' series ... can be found in all kinds of bindings randing from cloth with or without onlaid decorative celluloid plaques, to chamois leathers of various colors, finely gilt-stamped calf or beautiful morocco covers of different hues, with colours occasionally deliberately mixed within the same set for better effect"--Bondy, page 114.
Library's copy housed in wooden bookshelf with 5 shelves and set of 2 drawers with brass knob handles.
Description
40 volumes : illustrations ; 51 x 34 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Blue levant stamped with title and tooled with small flower in gilt on spine, center design inlaid in red leather, gilded edges. Bound by Zaehnsdorf.
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