Accession number
PML 253442.1-40
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Published
Glasgow : David Bryce and Son ; New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1904]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"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.
"Printed at the University Press, Glasgow"--Title page verso of each play.
Each play with engraved frontispiece.
"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 copies housed in wooden cabinet with 3 shelves and french doors with carved leaves decorations.
Library's copies originally accompanied by binding variant of an additional copy of Much ado about nothing (PML 253441).
"Carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J. Talfourd Blair"--Frontispiece verso of each play.
"Printed at the University Press, Glasgow"--Title page verso of each play.
Each play with engraved frontispiece.
"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 copies housed in wooden cabinet with 3 shelves and french doors with carved leaves decorations.
Library's copies originally accompanied by binding variant of an additional copy of Much ado about nothing (PML 253441).
Description
40 volumes : illustrations ; 52 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Various colored leather stamped in gilt on front and spine.
Classification
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