Pictures Dated 23rd February 2017

Hamlet by John Masey Wright, 19th Century

SBT 2015-11. Sketches by John Masey Wright O.W.S., C19th
SBT 2015-11/1. Hamlet. Pencil and Wash drawing by John Masey Wright (1777-1866), O.W.S. From an album of J.M. Wright drawings. Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 4, “It will not speake: then I will follow it”. Depicting Hamlet making ready to follow the ghost of his father, restrained by Horatio and Marcellus. Mounted and unglazed. (Mount: 295 x 305mm. Sketch 125mm x 150mm)

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Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden by Walter Crane, 1909

Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: a Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane. Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1909. ‘Dedicated to The Countess of Warwick whose delightful Old English Garden at Easton Lodge suggested this book of Fancies, it is now inscribed'.
Plate 36. Strawberry and Nettle. Binding Dimensions (H, W): 253mm x 184mm.

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Maison Rustique or The Countrey Farme by Charles Steuens and Iohn Liebault, 1616

Maison Rustique or, The Countrey Farme. Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. London: printed by Adam Islip for Iohn Bill, 1616.
The volume is divided into seven books with a Table (or Index) and Table of the Diseases and Remedies described in the seven books at the end.
The Second Book of the Countrie Farme: Of Gardens, Chp L, p.263. Setting Herbs in order (knots).
Binding Dimensions (H, W, Spine): 295mm x 180mm x 50mm
Page Dimensions (H, W): 285mm x 173mm

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